Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 1 : : Poems / / Paul Valéry; ed. by James R. Lawler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Valéry, Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Lawler, James R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1820
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (510 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Recollection, by Paul Valéry --; ALBUM DE VERS ANCIENS / ALBUM OF EARLY VERSE --; LA JEUNE PARQUE / THE YOUNG FATE --; CHARMES / CHARMS --; PIÈCES DIVERSES DE TOUTE ÉPOQUE / VARIOUS POEMS OF ALL PERIODS --; DOUZE POÈMES / TWELVE POEMS --; POÈMES PUBLIÉS À PART / UNCOLLECTED POEMS --; VERS DE CIRCONSTANCE / OCCASIONAL VERSE --; Editor's Note --; A Note on the Translations --; ON POETS AND POETRY from the NOTE BOOKS --; ALBUM DE VERS ANCIENS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400873098; 9783110426847; 9783110413533; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400873098
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul Valéry; ed. by James R. Lawler.

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," "ed 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.