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The Idea of Perfection

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Idea of Perfection

By Paul Valéry

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About the book

Heir to Mallarme and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valery was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise...Show more

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ISBN

9780374298487

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

The Idea of Perfection

Format

Hardcover

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