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Born in October 30, 1871 / Died in July 20, 1945 / France / French

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WRITINGS: POETRY

  • La Jeune Parque (title means The Young Fate ), Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1917, with commentary by Alain, Gallimard, 1936, reprinted, 1958, enlarged edition with critical document study by Octave Nadal published as La Jeune Parque: Manuscrit autographe, texte de l'edition 1942, etats successifs et brouillons inedits du poem (includes unpublished drafts), Club du Meilleur Livre, 1957, translation by Alistair Elliot published as La jeune Parque,, Bloodaxe Books, 1997.
  • Album de vers anciens, 1890-1900 (collection; title means Album of Old Verse; includes La Fileuse, Helene, Naissance de Venus, Feerie, Baignee, Au Bois dormant, Le Bois amical, Un Feu distinct..., Narcisse parle, Episode, Vue, Valvins, Ete, Anne, Orphee, Semiramis, L'Amateur de poemes), A. Monnier, 1920 , Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1927.
  • Charmes; ou, Poemes (collection; title means Songs; or, Poems; contains L'Abeille, Au Plantane, Aurore, Le Cantique des colonnes, La Ceinture, Le Cimetiere marin, Dormeuse, La Fausse Morte, Les Grenades, L'Insinuant, Interieur, Fragments du Narcisse, Ode secrete, La Pythie Les Pas, Poesie, Air de Semiramis, Le Vin perdu, Le Sylphe, Ebauche d'un serpent, Le Rameur, Palme), Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1922, French text edited by Charles G. Whiting with English introduction and notes, Athlone Press, 1973, reprinted, 1985, translation by James L. Brown published as Charms, Forsan Books, 1983.
  • Melange (collection; contains Melange, Petites Etudes, Poesie brute, Colloques, Instants, Cantate du Narcisse), Gallimard, 1941.
  • L'Ange, Gallimard, 1946.
  • Le Cimetiere marin (first published in Nouvelle Revue Francaise, June 1, 1920), preface by Henri Mondor, Roissard, 1954, introduction by Sylvio Samama, illustrations by Abram Krol, A. Krol (Paris), 1964; dual-language edition translated by C. Day Lewis as Le Cimetiere marin/The Graveyard by the Sea, Secker & Warburg, 1946; dual-language edition edited and translated by Graham Dunstan Martin as Le Cimetiere marin/The Graveyard by the Sea, University of Texas Press, 1971.
  • Abeille spirituelle(previously unpublished poem), privately printed, 1968.
  • First drafts of Valery's poem La Jeune Parque are included in Rompre le silence: Les Premiers Etats de La Jeune Parque by Bruce Pratt, J. Corti (Paris), 1976, and in Chant du cygne: Edition critique des premiers etats de La Jeune Parque, by Pratt, J. Corti, 1979.
PROSE
  • La Conquete allemande (first published inNew Review [London], January 1, 1897), Extrait du Mercure de France, 1915, revised edition published as Une Conquete methodique, Champion, 1924.
  • Introduction a la methode de Leonard de Vinci (first published in Nouvelle Revue, August 15, 1894 [some sources say 1895]), Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919, Gallimard, 1964, translation by Thomas McGreevy published as Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci, J. Rodker, 1929.
  • La Soiree avec M. Teste (short story; first published in Centaure, September, 1896), Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919 , translation by Ronald Davis published as An Evening With Mr. Teste, R. Davis (Paris), 1925; new and enlarged edition published as Monsieur Teste (contains Preface, La Soiree avec M. Teste, Lettre de Mme. Emilie Teste, Extraits du logbook de monsieur Teste, Lettre d'un ami, La Promenade avec monsieur Teste, Pour un portrait de monsieur Teste, Quelques pensees de monsieur Teste, Fin de monsieur Teste), Gallimard, 1946, revised, 1969, translation with notes by Jackson Mathews published as Monsieur Teste (contains Preface, An Evening With Mr. Teste, Letter From Mme. Emilie Teste, Excerpts From M. Teste's Logbook, Letter From a Friend, A Walk With M. Teste, Dialogue, For a Portrait of M. Teste, More Excerpts From the Logbook, End of M. Teste), Knopf, 1947, McGraw, 1964.
  • Eupalinos; ou, L'Architecte, precede de L'Ame et la danse (two dialogues; Eupalinos first published as Paradoxe sur l'architectein Ermitage, March, 1891, translation by William McCausland Stewart published as Eupalinos; or, The Architect, Oxford University Press/H. Milford, 1932; L'Ame et la danse first published in Revue Musicale, December, 1920, translation by Dorothy Busay published as Dance and the Soul, John Lehmann, 1951 ), Gallimard, 1923, reprinted, 1938, translated and edited with introduction and notes by Vera J. Daniel as Eupalinos, and, L'Ame et la danse, Oxford University Press, 1967.
  • Fragments sur Mallarme, R. Davis (Paris), 1924..
  • Situation de Baudelaire, Madame Lesafe (Paris), 1924.
  • 1927-38 Variete (essays; includes Fragment d'un Descartes Le Retour de Hollande, Sur Bossuet, Oraison funebre d'une fable, Preface aux lettres persanes, Stendhal, Situation de Baudelaire, Passage de Verlaine, Stephane Mallarme, Le Coup de des, Derniere visite a Mallarme, Lettre sur Mallarme, Souvenir de J. K. Huysmans, Petite lettre sur les mythes, Etudes, Je disais quelquefois a Stephane Mallarme, Questions de poesie, Au sujet du `Cimetiere marin,' Commentaires de `Charmes,' Amphion [melodrame], Semiramis [melodrame], Leonard et les philosophes, La `Peur des morts,' La Politique de l'esprit, Inspirations mediterraneennes, Le Bilan de l'intelligence, Remerciement a l'Academie francaise, Reponse au remerciement du Marechal Petain a l'Academie francaise, Discours en l'honneur de Goethe, Discours de l'histoire prononce a la distribution solennelle des prix du Lycee Janson-de-Sailly, le 13 juillet 1892, Discours de la Maison d'education de la Legion d'honneur de Saint-Denis, le 11 juillet 1892, Rapport sur les prix de vertu Discours prononce a l'occasion de la distribution des prix du College de Sete, Descartes, Discours prononce du deuxieme Congres international d'esthetique et de science de l'art, L'Homme et la coquille, Discours aux chirurgiens, Reflexions simples sur le corps, Fragments des memoires d'un poeme, Le Prince et la jeune parque, Poesie et pensee abstraite, Cantiques spirituels, Sur Phedre femme, La Tentation de [saint] Flaubert, Une Vue de Descartes, Seconde Vue de Descartes, Svedenborg, Enseignement de la poetique, Lecon inaugurale de cours de poetique du College de France), five volumes, Gallimard, reprinted, translation by Malcolm Cowley, William Aspenwall Bradley, and others published as Variety (includes Introduction, The Intellectual Crisis, Note, Adonis, A Foreword, On Poe's `Eureka,' Variations on a Theme From Pascal, A Tribute , An Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci , Villon and Verlaine, Concerning Carot, The Position of Baudelaire), Harcourt.
  • Durtal, Champion, 1925.
  • Etudes et fragments sur le reve, Claude Aveline (Paris), 1925.
  • Petit recueil de paroles de circonstance, Plaisir de Bibliophile, 1926.
  • Discours de la diction des vers, Le Livre, 1926, revised edition published as De la diction des vers, Emile Chamontin (Paris), 1933.
  • Durtal; ou, Les Points d'une conversion(criticism), M. Senac (Paris), 1927.
  • Maitres et amis (title means Masters and Friends), Beltrand, 1927.
  • Discours sur Emile Verhaeren(lecture), Champion, 1927.
  • Discours de reception a l'Academie francaise, Gallimard, 1927.
  • Odes: Compositions de D. Galanis(criticism), Aux Aldes, 1927.
  • Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete(essays), Bertrand Guegan (Paris), 1928.
  • Remarques exterieures, illustrations by L. J. Soulas, Editions des Cahiers Libres, 1929.
  • Variation sur une "Pensee," annotee par l'auteur, Balancier, 1930.
  • Litterature (notes; first published in Commerce, 1929), Gallimard, 1930.
  • Regards sur le monde actuel (essays), Stock (Paris), 1931, introduction by Jean Danielou, Vlaletay, 1973; revised and enlarged edition published as Regards sur le monde actuel et autres essais (contains Avantpropos, Grandeur et decadence de l'Europe, De l'histoire, Fluctuations sur la liberte, L'Idee de dictature, Au sujet de la dictature, Souvenir actuel, L'Amerique, projection de l'esprit europeen, Images de la France, Fonction de Paris, Presence de Paris, Le Yalou, Propos sur le progres Pensee et art francais, Notre destin et les lettres, La Liberte de l'esprit, La France travaille, Metier d'homme, Coup d'oeil sur les lettres francaises, Economie de guerre de l'esprit, Fonction et mystere de l'academie, Le Centre Universitaire mediterraneen), Gallimard, 1945, reprinted, 1963, translation by Francis Scarfe published as Reflections on the World Today (contains Notes on the Greatness and Decadence of Europe, Of History, Fluctuations on Liberty, The Idea of Dictatorship, On the Subject of Dictatorship, America as a Projection of the European Mind, Images of France, The Function of Paris, The Yellow River, Remarks on Progress, Our Destiny and Literature, Freedom of Mind, France at Work, The War-Economy of Mind), Pantheon, 1948, Thames & Hudson, 1951.
  • L'Idee fixe (dialogue), Les Laboratories Martinet (Paris), 1932, new revised and corrected edition published as L'Idee fixe; ou, Deux Hommes a la mer, Gallimard, 1933, reprinted, 1966.
  • Choses tues, Gallimard, 1932.
  • Moralites, Gallimard, 1932.
  • Suite, Gallimard, 1934.
  • Etat de la vertu: Rapport a l'academie, L. Pichon (Paris), 1935.
  • Analecta(extracts from Notebooks and other personal records), Gallimard, 1935.
  • L'Homme et la coquille, illustrations by Henri Mondor, Gallimard, 1937, translation by Ralph Manheim published as Sea Shells,Beacon Press, 1998.
  • Discours aux chirurgiens(lecture), Gallimard, 1938.
  • Introduction a la poetique, Gallimard, 1938.
  • Degas, danse, dessin (fragments first published in Nouvelle Revue Francaise, October, 1935, April, 1938), Gallimard, 1938, reprinted, 1965 , translation by Helen Burlin published as Degas, Dance, Drawing, Lear (New York, NY), 1948.
  • Poesie et pensee abstraite(lecture), Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1939.
  • 1941-43 Tel quel (extracts; contains Choses tues, Moralites, Litterature, Cahier B 1910, Rhumbs, Autres rhumbs, Analecta, Suite), two volumes, Gallimard.
  • La Politique de l'esprit, notre souverain bien(address), introduction by Lucy Leveaux, Editions de l'Universite de Manchester, 1941.
  • Mauvaises pensees et autres(extracts), Gallimard, 1942.
  • Dialogues de l'arbre, Firmin-Didot (Paris), 1943.
  • Au sujet de Nerval, Textes Pretextes (Paris), 1944.
  • Un Poete inconnu(contains two interviews with Valery), Lettres Francaises, 1944.
  • (With Paul Eluard, Renee Moutard-Uldry, Georges Blaizot, and Louis-Marie Michon) Paul Bonet, A. Blaizot (Paris), 1945.
  • Discours sur Voltaire(lecture), Domat-Montchrestien (Paris), 1945.
  • Henri Bergson, Domat-Montchrestien (Paris), 1945.
  • Souvenirs poetiques, Le Prat (Paris), 1947.
  • Vues, illustrations by Gilbert Poilliot, Table Ronde, 1948.
  • Histoires brisees, Gallimard, 1950.
  • Ecrits divers sur Stephane Mallarme, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1950.
  • Propos sur le livre, Bibliophiles Francais, 1956.
  • The Outlook for Intelligence, edited by Jackson Mathews, translation from original French manuscript by Denise Folliot and Mathews, preface by Francois Valery, Harper, 1963.
  • Reflexions simples sur le corps, de Paul Valery, ayant inspire des lithographies originales a Hans Erni, E. A. D. (Paris), 1967.
  • (With Francois Valery) Les Principes d'anarchie pure et appliquee [and] Paul Valery et la politique (the former by P. Valery, the latter by F. Valery), Gallimard, 1984.
NOTEBOOKS
  • Rhumbs (notes et autres) par Paul Valery(extracts), Divan, 1926.
  • Autres rhumbs de Paul Valery(extracts), Editions de France, 1927.
  • Cahier B 1910(extracts), Gallimard, 1930.
  • Autres rhumbs(extracts), Gallimard, 1934.
  • 1973-74 Cahiers (title means Notebooks), twenty-nine volumes, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, definitive edition presented and annotated by Judith Robinson, Gallimard.
CORRESPONDENCE
  • Lettres a quelques-uns, Gallimard, 1952.
  • Gaston Poulain, Paul Valery, tel quel(includes unpublished letters), illustrations by P. Valery, Licorne, 1955.
  • (With Andre Gide) Andre Gide—Paul Valery: Correspondance, 1890-1942, preface and notes by Robert Mallet, Gallimard, 1955, reprinted as Correspondance Andre Gide—Paul Valery, 1890-1942, 1973, abridged and translated edition by June Guicharnaud published as Self-Portraits: The Gide/Valery Letters, 1890-1942, edited by Mallet, University of Chicago Press, 1966.
  • (With Gustave Fourment) Paul Valery—Gustave Fourment: Correspondance, 1887-1933, introduction, notes, and documents by Octave Nadal, Gallimard, 1957.
  • (With Frandcois Valery) L'Entre-Trois-Guerres de Paul Valery,Diffusion, Harmonia Mundi, 1994.
  • Correspondance: 1893-1945, Felin (Paris, France), 2002.
COLLECTIONS
  • Morceaux choisis: Prose et poesie (anthology; contains Poemes, Ecrits en prose, Sur la poesie, Sur l'architecte, Sur la danse, Essais divers, Cycle Teste), Gallimard, 1930, reprinted, 1957, abridged translation published as Selected Writings, New Directions, 1950, reprinted, 1964.
  • Poesies , Gallimard, 1931, 2nd edition, 1942, reprinted as Poesies: Album de vers anciens, La Jeune Parque, Charmes, Pieces diverses, Cantate du Narcisse, Amphion, Semiramis, Gallimard, 1966, Bibliotheque des Chefs-d'Oeuvre, 1979.
  • Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci (contains Introduction a la methode de Leonard de Vinci, Note et digression, Leonard et les philosophes), Editions du Sagittaire, 1931.
  • Eupalinos, L'Ame et la Danse, Dialogue de l'arbre, Gallimard, 1944, reprinted, 1970.
  • Oeuvres choisis (includes Reconnaissance a Valery, La Crise de l'esprit, L'Europeen), introduction by Daniel Simond, Abbaye du Livre, 1947.
  • Paul Valery: Prose et vers, compiled by Henri Payre, Blaisdell (Paris), 1968.
  • La Jeune Parque; L'Ange; Agathe; Histoires brisees, edited with preface and notes by Jean Levaillant, Gallimard, 1974.
  • Paul Valery: An Anthology(excerpts from Collected Works), selected with introduction by James R. Lawler, Princeton University Press, 1976.
  • Une Chambre conjecturale: Poemes ou proses de jeunesse(juvenalia), Bibliotheque Artistique & Litterature, 1981.
  • Paul Valery secret, 1937-1945: Lettres intimes, poemes inedits, Ader, Picard, Tajan Commissaires-priseurs Associes (Monaco), 1982.
COMPLETE WORKS
  • 1933-50 Oeuvres de Paul Valery, twelve volumes, Volumes 1-2, Sagittaire, 1931; Volumes 3-12, Gallimard.
  • The Collected Works of Paul Valery (fifteen-part collection), edited by Jackson Mathews, Pantheon/Princeton University Press; Part I: Poems, translation by David Paul, [and] On Poets and Poetry, selected with translation from the Notebooks (see above) by James R. Lawler, 1971; Part II: Poems in the Rough, translation by Hilary Corke, introduction by Octave Nadal, 1969; Part III: Plays (some text in French and English), translation by D. Paul and Robert Fitzgerald, introduction by Francis Fergusson, memoir by Igor Stravinsky, 1960; Part IV: Dialogues, translation by W. M. Stewart, prefaces by W. Stevens, 1956; Part V: Idee fixe, translation by D. Paul, preface by J. Mathews, introduction by Philip Wheelwright, 1965; Part VI: Monsieur Teste, translation and introduction by J. Mathews, 1973; Part VII: The Art of Poetry, translation by Denise Folliot, introduction by T. S. Eliot, 1958, Random House, 1961; Part VIII: Leonardo, Poe, Mallarme, translation by Malcolm Cowley and Lawler, 1972; Part IX: Masters and Friends, translation by Martin Turnell, introduction by Joseph Frank, 1968; Part X: History and Politics, translation by Folliot and J. Mathews, preface by Francois Valery, introduction by Salvador de Madariaga, 1962; Part XI: Occasions, translation by Roger Shattuck and Frederick Brown, introduction by Shattuck, 1970; Part XII: Degas, Manet, Morisont, translation by D. Paul, introduction by D. Cooper, 1960; Part XIII: Aesthetics, translation by Ralph Manheim, introduction by Herbert Read, 1964; Part XIV: Analecta, translation by Stuart Gilbert, introduction by W. H. Auden, 1970; Part XV: Moi, translation by Marthiel Mathews and J. Mathews, 1975.
  • 1968-71 Oeuvres, two volumes, edited and annotated by Jean Hytier, Gallimard, reprinted.
OTHER
  • (Contributor to text) Tableaux de Paris(volume of illustrations), Editions Emile-Paul Freres (Paris), 1927.
  • Amphion(ballet; first produced at The Opera, Paris, France, 1931; music by Arthur Honegger), Rouart Lerolle (Paris), 1931.
  • Semiramis(three-act ballet; first produced at The Opera, 1934; music by Honegger), Gallimard, 1934.
  • (Editor and contributor) Problemes nationaux vus par des francaises(includes Avantpropos), Editions du Sagittaire, 1934.
  • (Author of text) Paraboles(collection of twelve watercolors), Editions du Raisin, 1935.
  • (Contributor) Maillol, Publications Techniques, 1943.
  • (Author of preface) E. A. van Moe, Les Fouquet de la Bibliotheque nationale, Editions de la Revue Verve, 1943.
  • (Librettist) Germaine Tailleferre, Cantate du Narcisse(opera; first produced in 1939), Gallimard, 1944, Centraux Bibliophiles, 1956.
  • Mon Faust(unfinished play), Gallimard, 1946, reprinted, 1962.
  • (Author of prefaces with Stephane Mallarme) Seize Aquarelles (title means Sixteen Watercolors), Editions des Quatres Chemins, 1946.
  • (Illustrator) Paul de Man, Les Dessins de Paul Valery(anthology of drawings), Editions Universelles, 1948.
  • (Contributor) Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 (collection of paintings; includes Introduction a la methode de Leonard de Vinci), Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1950.
  • (Author of introduction) Martin Huerlimann, photographer, La France (photographs), Braun (Paris), 1951, reprinted, 1967, translation published with historical notes by Valery as Eternal France: 216 Pictures in Photogravure, Thames & Hudson (New York), 1952, revised and enlarged edition published as France: 217 Pictures in Photogravure, Studio Publications, 1957, new and enlarged edition published as France, Studio Publications, 1968.
  • (Translator) Publius Vergilius Maro, Les Bucoliques de Virgile (verse), illustrations by Jacques Villon, Scripta & Pica (Paris), 1953, enlarged edition published as Bucoliques de Virgile, Gallimard, 1956.
  • (Author of preface) Anthologie des poetes de la Nouvelle revue francaise, 3rd edition, Gallimard, 1958.
  • (Compiler and author of explanatory notes) Rene Descartes, Les Pages immortelles de Descartes, Buchet/Chastel, 1961.
  • (Translator and author of commentary) Fragments des Marginalia (selections from Marginalia by Edgar Allan Poe), Fata Morgana (France), 1980.