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Book SynopsisPoems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetiere marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide scope of Valery's lyric preoccupation. The bilingual edition, with David Paul's English translations facing the French texts, includes the autobiograph
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*Recollection, by Paul Valery, pg. xv*ALBUM DE VERS ANCIENS / ALBUM OF EARLY VERSE, pg. 1*LA JEUNE PARQUE / THE YOUNG FATE, pg. 68*CHARMES / CHARMS, pg. 107*PIECES DIVERSES DE TOUTE EPOQUE / VARIOUS POEMS OF ALL PERIODS, pg. 237*DOUZE POEMES / TWELVE POEMS, pg. 281*POEMES PUBLIES A PART / UNCOLLECTED POEMS, pg. 313*VERS DE CIRCONSTANCE / OCCASIONAL VERSE, pg. 371*Editor's Note, pg. 389*A Note on the Translations, pg. 390*ON POETS AND POETRY from the NOTE BOOKS, pg. 395*ALBUM DE VERS ANCIENS, pg. 433
