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Paul Valery; Edited by (editors-in-chief) Brian Stimpson; Edited by (associates) Paul Gifford, Robert Pickering; Translated by Paul Gifford, …
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Paul Valery (1871-1945) was a poet and essayist, and along with
Verlaine and Mallarme is regarded as one of the most important
Symbolist writers, and an influence on poets from Eliot to Ashbery.
He had a quiet life by many standards, but in one respect it was
exemplary, even legendary; he made an early reputation in little
magazines, decided to stop writing verse when still only 20, kept
his silence for 20 years, then began again; and his first book of
verse, published when he was 45, was his masterpiece La Jeune
Parque.'A poem should not mean, but be,' said Archibald MacLeish.
La Jeune Parque ('the goddess of Fate as a young woman') certainly
exists: she's beautiful and makes great gestures. And as for what
she means, there's a substantial amount of argument about that, so
La Jeune Parque is a poem by either definition. It's a classic, by
general agreement, written to the full 17th-century recipe for
alexandrine couplets, and it's modern, with every word pulling its
weight in more than one direction. Alistair Elliot's translation
with notes is aimed at making this rewarding but difficult long
poem accessible enough for bafflement to turn into admiration. He
attempts to clarify its small puzzles and also trace the overall
narrative line of Paul Valery's poem: it does have a story (what
should a young woman do?) and does struggle towards a resolution.
He also provides an introduction which deals with the interesting
circumstances of the poem's four-year composition (1913-17), which
resulted in Valery's instantly becoming a famous poet at the age of
45, after having written no poetry for 20 years.
It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including
such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune
Parque"; then ranges through Valery's work in fields as various as
architecture, logic, the dance, literature, philosophy, and
painting. It concludes with excerpts from his creative writings
such as Monsieur Teste and the drama Mon Faust. The list of
translators for this volume is distinguished. Among them are Lionel
Abel, Leonie Adams, Malcolm Cowly, James Kirkup, C. Day Lewis,
Jackson Mathews, Louise Varese, and Vernon Watkins."
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valery, one of the
major French literary figures of the twentieth century. Heir to
Mallarme and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul
Valery 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 Valery'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 Valery: 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.
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 his affections and interests: Descartes,
Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust,
Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The
volume presents, in an appendix, the first publication in English
of any extensive selection from Valery's personal notebooks--the
Cahiers. Originally published in 1968. 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.
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 his affections and interests: Descartes,
Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, Proust,
Huysmans, Pierre Louys, Nerval, Rilke, Bergson, and others. The
volume presents, in an appendix, the first publication in English
of any extensive selection from Valery's personal notebooks--the
Cahiers. Originally published in 1968. 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.
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.
The textbook provides an overview of the sensory science field in
the context of diseases such as obesity and Coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19). This book brings a summary of the state of the
science in key areas and provides examples of translational science
from using cellular and rodent models to human clinical trials and
community health. The volume structure leads the reader through the
physiology of taste and smell into how sensory testing for taste
and smell is studied, basic mechanisms, various protocols that are
used throughout the field along with the pros/cons of the current
methods used. This resource is intended for classroom teaching, for
novice researchers in sensory research as well as students and
postdoctoral fellows. Example of courses are nutrition, basic
nursing, interdisciplinary health courses, sensory perception
(psychology), neuroscience, and medical courses, dentistry, food
science and others.
A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the artist.
Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valery
talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military
experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The
volume contains selections from the Valery-Gide and Valery-Fourment
correspondence and two additional pieces, "The Avenues of the
Mind," a magazine interview with Valery printed in 1927, and Pierre
Feline's "Memories of Paul Valery." Originally published in 1975.
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.
Valery's dialogues are considered his most important works of
imagination in prose. The volume brings together for the first time
all the formal dialogues, including Eupalinos and six other
pieces."
A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the artist.
Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valery
talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military
experience, his travels, his poetry, and his acquaintances. The
volume contains selections from the Valery-Gide and Valery-Fourment
correspondence and two additional pieces, "The Avenues of the
Mind," a magazine interview with Valery printed in 1927, and Pierre
Feline's "Memories of Paul Valery." Originally published in 1975.
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.
Paul Valery felt a deep interest in politics and developed an
active involvement in international affairs. A spokesperson for the
League of Nations, he was the French representative to the
Committee on Intellectual Co-operation and the Permanent Committee
on Arts and Letters, both organs of the League. This volume
includes twelve essays illustrating his political concerns.
All of Valery's major meditations on the theory and practice of
poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his
introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age .
. . a new conception of the poet." In Valery's own words, the poet
is characterized as a "cool scientist, almost an algebraist, in the
service of a subtle dreamer." Valery focuses his attention on the
deliberate formal work that transforms the dream into the poem, in
his own poems, as well as in analyses of La Fontaine, Victor Hugo,
Baudelaire, the Symbolists, Mallarme, Rimbaud, and others."
Includes some of Valery's finest strokes of imagination, Broken
Stories; some of his wittiest observations, Mixtures, Poems in the
Rough; and even two of his great poems, Parables and The Angel--all
written in the form of prose. Originally published in 1970. 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.
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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
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.
Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valery's novel
is profoundly personal. Monsieur Teste reflects Valery's
preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from
sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional character. This
volume includes "Snapshots of Monsieur Teste," excerpts from
Valery's Cahiers."
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 selection included from his Notebooks is
evidence of his enduring interest in these figures. The essays are,
in fact, the only work with marginal glosses, Valery's notations
showing how he went back, amending and amplifying his original
ideas. Originally published in 1972. 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.
Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetiere marin" to
occasional and light verse written as letters to friends,
dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate
the wide scope of Valery'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 Valery's
notebooks by James Lawler. Paul Valery 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.
This collection of Valery's occasional pieces--speeches,
interviews, articles--shows him very much as the public figure, the
first in demand when an "occasion" needed a prominent person.
Included are his speech before the French Academy on his reception
into that body; his address welcoming Marshal Petain to membership
in the French Academy; a witty and appealing commencement address
to the young ladies of a private school; memorial addresses
honoring Emile Verhaeren and Henri Bremond; an article on the
"Future of Literature," and an incisive piece on the eponymous
heroine of Racine's Phedre. Because Valery spoke on many current
educational and social problems in France, Occasions will be of
considerable interest to students of modern European history as
well as to those concerned with French literature and drama.
Originally published in 1970. 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.
Grouped together in this book are several smaller volumes and
plaquettes in which Valery had published selections of his shorter
prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations,
flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes--a variety of remarks and
impressions, many of them first recorded in his Notebooks.
Originally published in 1970. 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.
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