{"product_id":"poems-in-the-rough","title":"Poems in the Rough","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of Valéry’s prose poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Valéry began writing poems in various forms of prose and free verse as early as 1892, with \u003ci\u003ePure Dramas\u003c\/i\u003e, and continued to do so throughout his life, even during his so-called period of silence, when he had given up writing formal verse. This volume of Valéry’s prose poems includes some of his finest strokes of imagination (\u003ci\u003eBroken Stories\u003c\/i\u003e), some of his wittiest observations (\u003ci\u003eMixtures \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePoems in the Rough\u003c\/i\u003e), and even some of his greatest poems (\u003ci\u003eParables \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Angel\u003c\/i\u003e), revealing that he was a master not only of traditional verse forms but of the modern prose poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Collected Works of Paul Valéry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57261313458520,"sku":"9780691292632","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780691292632_2c50a8ae-fc2c-4d22-9ebf-b64b43cf6383.jpg?v=1778829338","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/poems-in-the-rough","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}