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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (Sète, October 30, 1871 – Paris, July 20, 1945) was a French author and poet of the Symbolist school. He was natural inside Sète, Hérault. Sleep in Paris from 1892 onwards, he produced nothing for a twenty-month cycle, at length breaking his silence within 1917 with La Jeune Parque. His interests were broad, including maths, philosophy, art & music, everthing of which are then reflected in the corpus of his act, which besides involved prose & drama. Valéry's monumental "Cahiers" — notebooks he wrote each morning for fifty years — develop lone in a go deuce decades received the philosophic attention it deserve. He was member of the Académie française, Académie des sciences de Lisbonne and Front national des Ecrivains. He died within 1945 in Paris at age 74. Valéry's "Palme" inspired James Merrill's celebrated 1974 poem "Lost in Translation". }
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Paul Valéry Short biography and a few poems in English translation. Paul Valery Concise introduction featuring a biography, major works, and discussions of his themes and style. Valéry Studies - Newcastle University of Newcastle upon Tyne research project. |
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