The Art of Poetry

Paul Valéry, Denise Folliot

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780691611549
  9780691639543
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400864478
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction, by Τ. S. Eliot
• Preamble
• Concerning Adonis
• Funeral Oration for a Fable
• A Foreword
• Poetry and Abstract Thought
• Problems of Poetry
• Memoirs of a Poem
• The Prince and La Jeune Parque
• Concerning Le Cimetière Marin
• Commentaries on Charmes
• On Speaking Verse
• Letter to Madame C.
• The Poet's Rights over Language
• A Poet's Notebook
• Pure Poetry
• Contemporary Poetry
• Remarks on Poetry
• The Necessity of Poetry
• Notes on Tragedy and a Tragedy
• The Poetry of La Fontaine
• Victor Hugo, Creator Through Form
• Victor Hugo's Finest Stanza
• Fountains of Memory
• A Solemn Address
• An After-Dinner Speech
• Spiritual Canticles
• Variations on the Eclogues
• Appendix: On Literary Technique
• Notes