Author: Paul ValéryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Le Cimetiere Marin
Author: Paul ValéryGraveyard by the sea
Author: Paul ValéryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780292710030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Valery's Graveyard Le Cimetiere Marin, Translated, Described, and Peopled
Author: Hugh P. McGrathPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433113345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
On the basis of the French text and a translation that is at once accurate and poetical, this book provides an introduction to the poem, Le Cimetière marin, and thereby to the complex intellectual world of Valéry. A valuable resource for scholars, Valéry's Graveyard is accessible to all serious readers. As it does not require a knowledge of French, the book is suitable for study in any course on modern literature.
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 1
Author: Paul ValéryPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400873096
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetière marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Valéry's lyric preoccupation. The bilingual edition, with David Paul's English translations facing the French texts, includes the autobiographical "Recollection," quoted below, and excerpts on poetry, selected and translated from Valéry's notebooks by James Lawler. Paul Valéry turned to the discipline of poetry during the First World War, to escape from the "commotion of a world gone mad." "I fashioned myself a poetry," he wrote, "that had no other law than to establish for me a way of living with myself, for a part of my days." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Form and Meaning in Valéry's Le Cimetière Marin
Author: James R. LawlerPublisher: [Carlton] : Melbourne University Press
ISBN:
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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The poem, set in the cemetery at Sète (where Valéry himself is now buried), is a meditation on death. At first the narrator observes the calm sea under the blazing noontime sun and accepts the inevitability of death. But as the wind begins to stir and waves start forming on the sea, a sign of the energy beneath the surface, the narrator proclaims the necessity of choosing life by choosing eternal change over contemplation.Valéry approached the composition of the poem as if it were a musical form, with the rhythm of the verse mimicking the movement of the sea.
The Art of Poetry
Author: Paul ValéryPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140086447X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
All of the major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry by one of the greatest poets of our time--and perhaps the one who has most scrupulously analyzed his art--are included in The Art of Poetry. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Valéry's Graveyard
Author: Hugh P. McGrathPublisher:
ISBN: 9781453900857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Idea of Perfection
Author: Paul ValéryPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374713952
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. Heir to Mallarmé and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet, nor his occasional sketchbook, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent, as rigorous, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. The Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse, The Young Fate, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century.
The Present Position in Criticism of Le Cimetière Marin
Author: Richard Leo DuaxPaul Valéry: Le cimetière marin
Author: Graham Dunstan MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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