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Paul Valery's Album des Vers Anciens: A Past Transfigured
By (Author) Suzanne Nash
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
841.912
Paperback
340
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
Questioning the view that the work is not representative of the poet's mature accomplishment, Suzanne Nash argues that the revisionary process involved in its creation led Valery to reflect on problems fundamental to poetic production and thus provided inspiration for all his later poetry. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Librar