Edgar Allen Poe's influence on the twentieth century French
writer Paul Valery was profound, much more so than on Baudelaire
and Mallarme. This book is the first comprehensive study of Poe's
influence of Valery and is based on Valery's own concept of
literary influence. Valery discovered in Poe's tales and literary
essays a Drama of the intellect that was to inspire his Evening
with Monsieur teste, Agathe, and Introduction to the method of
Leonardo Da Vinci. Valery's poetics and approach to literary
criticism have direct connections to Poe's Philosophy of
Composition and Poetic Principle. Valery's only essay devoted to
his American mentor, On Poe's Eureka, recognizes the importance of
the cosmological poem in Valery's intellectual development. Eureka
awakened in him an interest in science and mathematics that lasted
a lifetime and inspired him to apply scientific analysis to
literary genius, the first writer to place creative work on an
analytical basis and explore the psychological aspects of
literature.
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