'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!'
One of the pre-eminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered to be one of the country's greatest poets of the twentieth century. Following a flurry of sonnets in his late teens, he abruptly abandoned verse for twenty years. If the publication of The Young Fate in 1917 won him immediate and immense acclaim, his status as the outstanding poet of the era was firmly consolidated by the Album of Early Verse and Charms, with its beautiful meditation on mortality, 'The Graveyard by the Sea', regarded as one of the greatest poems in French. A classical voice in an era of avant-garde modernism, Valéry's often sensuous work was informed by mysticism, myth, the Mediterranean, and above all passionate love. This bilingual edition brings together for the first time the complete verse with many unknown and previously unpublished poems taken from his abundant correspondence, which offers insight into a more personal, intimate, and at times humorous writer.
THIS EDITION INCLUDES
Introduction - Textual Notes - Bibliography
Chronology - Explanatory notes
