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, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and others.
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These essays should come into the hands of everyone interested not only in the now almost mythical figure of Valery but in the evolving situation of poetry and poetic theory in our time. -- The New Yorker
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THIS volume contains various essays which have appeared here and there, and which deal with the poet's state and the art of verse; but there is hardly anything to be found in it that would explain poetry itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THIS volume contains various essays which have appeared here and there, and which deal with the poet's state and the art of verse; but there is hardly anything to be found in it that would explain poetry itself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Ascent Of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross on page 281
- Ascent of Mount Carmel (Christian Classics, 20) by John of the Cross on page 281
- Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo in Back Matter
- Biographia Literaria: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions (v. 7) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Front Matter
- The Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross on page 281
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- A Cure of the Mind: The Poetics of Wallace Stevens by Theodore Sampson on 5 pages
- A Poetry of Two Minds (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft) by Sherod Santos in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wallace Stevens and the Seasons by George S. Lensing on page 79, and Back Matter
- The Object of Literary Criticism (Elementa 29) by Richard Shusterman on page 158, and Back Matter
- Creative Writing and the New Humanities by Paul Dawson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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