Literature

The Art of Poetry: The Collected Works of Paul Val茅ry, Volume 7

    Translated by
  • Denise Folliot
    Introduction by
  • T. S. Eliot

An authoritative collection of Val茅ry鈥檚 important essays on poetry

Hardcover

Price:
$85.00/拢70.00
ISBN:
Published:
Sep 1, 2026
1958
Pages:
376
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.

This volume collects all of Paul Val茅ry鈥檚 major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry. These pieces range from his first essay, 鈥淥n Literary Technique鈥 (1889), to his last, 鈥淰ariations on the Eclogues鈥 (1944). Among them are essays on his own work and that of other poets, on 鈥減ure poetry,鈥 on the speaking of verse, and on the art of translation. In these pieces, Val茅ry focuses on the deliberate formal work of poetry鈥攊n his own poems as well as in those of La Fontaine, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Mallarm茅, Rimbaud, and others.

The Collected Works of Paul Val茅ry, the first collected edition of the writer in English, features new translations, the original French on facing pages for poetic works, and editorial notes.