Author: Paul Valery

'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the ...

Poems ranging from La Jeune Parque and Le Cimetiere marin to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and in...

Valery's essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, and with these the Teste Cycle, were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive s...

Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the Rough; and even ...

This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valery in the shaping of his mind or in ...

This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valery in the shaping of his mind or in ...

Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and plaquettes in which Valery had published selections of his shorter prose writings: ap...

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 scrupu...

Valery's essays on Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, and with these the Teste Cycle, were that part of his work most central to his thought. The extensive s...

This collection of Valery's occasional pieces--speeches, interviews, articles--shows him very much as the public figure, the first in demand when a...