PAUL VALERY

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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poem (includes unpublished drafts), Club du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, Se
miramis, 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Abeille spirituelle(previously unpublished poem),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 GidePaul Valery:
Correspondance, 1890-1942, preface and notes by
Robert Mallet, Gallimard, 1955, reprinted
as Correspondance Andre GidePaul 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 ValeryGustave
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.
FURTHER READINGS
FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
BOOKS
Berne-Joffroy, Andre, Valery, Gallimard, 1960.
Bertholet, Denis, Paul Valery, 1871-1945,Plon,
1995.
Blanchot, Maurice, La Part de feu, Gallimard,
1949.
Bonnefoy, Yves, L'Improbable, Mercure de France,
1959.
Carlson, Eric W., editor, The Recognition of Edgar
Allan Poe: Selected Criticism Since 1829, University
of Michigan Press, 1966.
Charpier, Jacques, Valery, Editions Pierre Seghers
(Paris), 1962.
Cioran, E. M., Valery face a ses idoles, L'Herne
(Paris), 1970.
Derrida, Jacques, Margins of Philosophy,
translated with notes by Alan Bass, University of
Chicago Press, 1982.
 Dragonetti, Roger, Aux frontieres du langage
poetique: Etudes sur Dante, Mallarme, Valery,
Romanica Gandensia (Gent), 1961.
Gifford, Paul, ed., Reading Paul Valery: Universe in
Mind,Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Grubbs, Henry A., Paul Valery, Twayne (New York,
NY), 1968.
Guerlac, Suzanne, Literary Polemics: Bataille,
Sartre, Valery, Breton,Stanford University Press,
1997.
Harari, Josue V., editor, Textual Strategies, Cornell
University Press, 1979.
Hartman, Geoffrey, The Unmediated Vision: An
Interpretation of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Rilke, and
Valery, Yale University Press, 1954.
Henry, Albert, Langage et poesie chez Paul Valery,
Mercure de France, 1952.
Hytier, Jean, La Poetique de Valery, 2nd edition,
Armand Colin (Paris), 1970.
Ince, W. N., The Poetic Theory of Valery, University
Press, 1961.
Kluback, William, Paul Valery: Illusions of
Civilization,P. Lang, 1996.
Kluback, William, Paul Valery: The Continuous
Search for Reality,P. Lang, 1996.
Kluback, William, Paul Valery: The Realms of the
Analecta,Peter Lang, 1998.
Lawler, James, Lectures de Valery: Une Etude de
"Charmes,"Presses Universitaires de France, 1963.
Lawler, James, The Poet as Analyst: Essays on
Paul Valery, University of California Press, 1974.
Mackay, Agnes E., The Universal Self: A Study of
Paul Valery, University of Toronto Press, 1961.
 Mallet, Robert, editor, Self-Portraits: The
Gide/Valery Letters, 1890-1942, abridged and
translated by June Guicharnaud, University of
Chicago Press, 1966.
Mondor, Henri, Precocite de Valery, Gallimard,
1957.
Mondor, Henri, Propos familiers de Paul Valery,
Grasset (Paris), 1957.
Nash, Suzanne, Paul Valery's Album de vers
anciens: A Past Transfigured, Princeton University
Press, 1983.
Parisier-Plottel, Jeaninne, Les Dialogues de Paul
Valery, Presses Universitaires de France, 1960.
Putnam, Walter C., Paul Valery Revisitied,Twayne,
1995.
Raymond, Marcel, Paul Valery et la tentation de
l'esprit, A La Baconniere, 1964.
Rouart-Valery, Agathe, editor, Paul Valery,
Gallimard, 1966.
Symons, Julian, The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and
Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Harper, 1978.
Tate, Allen, Memoirs and Opinions, 1926-1974,
Swallow, 1975.
Taylor, Benjamin, Into the Open: Reflections on
Genius and Modernity, New York University Press,
1995.
Whiting, Charles G. Paul Valery, Athlone
Press/University of London, 1978.
PERIODICALS
Georgia Review, Volume 30, 1976.
Letters AouvellesSeptember, 1958.
Renaissance, Volume 2-3, 1944-45.
 Yale French Studies, No. 44, 1970.