Collected Works of Paul Valery

Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 9: Masters and Friends Paul Valéry
Edited by Jackson Mathews

This is an informal collection of essays and speeches on the writers who in one way or another counted for Valéry in the shaping of his mind or in his affections and interests: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche...

Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 15: Moi Paul Valéry
Edited by Jackson Mathews

A selection of writings that portray the inner life of the artist. Included are several short autobiographical pieces in which Valéry talks about his early childhood, his adolescence, his military experience, his travels, his poetry...

Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 6: Monsieur Teste Paul Valéry

Although not autobiographical in any usual sense, Valéry's novel is profoundly personal. Monsieur Teste reflects Valéry's preoccupation with the phenomenon of a mind detached from sensibility, yet he is also an ordinary fictional...

Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 4: Dialogues Paul Valéry
Edited by Jackson Mathews
Translated by W. M. Stewart

Valéry's dialogues are considered his most important works of imagination in prose. The volume brings together for the first time all the formal dialogues, including Eupalinos and six other pieces.

The Outlook for Intelligence: (With a preface by Francois Valery) Paul Valéry
Translated by Denise Folliot and Jackson Mathews

The description for this book, The Outlook for Intelligence: (With a preface by Francois Valery), will be forthcoming.

Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 7: The Art of Poetry. Introduction by T.S. Eliot Paul Valéry
Edited by Jackson Mathews
Translated by Denise Folliot

All of Valery's major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry are included in this volume. T.S. Eliot writes in his introduction that Valery "invented, and was to impose on his age . . . a new conception of the poet." In...