Valery : Paul Ambrose (1871-1945), French poet, essayist & critic, whose work is notable for the range & subtlety of its views & sensibility of its language.
... definition. This definition was accepted in general — nay, even actually framed — by Valery who was Mallarme's most gifted disciple. But Valery was not steeped in an atmosphere of the mystical as his master was in spite of being by intellectual conviction an atheist and a materialist. "Pure poetry", for Valery, achieves its absolute distinction from prose through a conscious deliberate construction... s not anything intelligible on the whole but a subtle many-shaded state of mind. Valery even said that his best poems had their origin in an intense obsession by certain metrical forms which he afterwards filled out with words connected to one another by what he felt to be their inner suggestive affinities. But Valery was a marked intellectual and his work is not so much a sheer evocation from the... a fantastic failure rather than a sphinx-like success. Something of the subtlety of Mallarme's Symbolism merges in something of the clarity that is French Classicism's to make the "pure poetry" of Valery. An instance is the Page 303 stanza from Le Cimetiere Marin (The Graveyard by the Sea), where a little after the start he is describing a moment of self-rarefaction as if anticipating ...
... and quotations, the upshot being that it is a poetry based on the dream consciousness, but I don't know if this is correct or merely an English critic's idea of it. The inclusion of Baudelaire and Valery seems to indicate something wider than that. But the word is of quite recent origin and nobody spoke formerly of Baudelaire as a surrealist or even of Mallarmé. Mallarmé was supposed to be the founder... Verlaine, Rimbaud,—both of them poets of great fame. Verlaine is certainly a great poet and people now say Rimbaud also, but I have never come across his poetry except in extracts—and developing in Valery and other noted writers Page 424 of today. It seems that all these are now claimed as part of or the origin of the surrealist movement. But I cannot say what are the exact boundaries or ...
... heard in Bach or Mozart! As music, they can have no special raison d'etre. Valery who spoke of constructing Page 322 musical patterns of words did not subscribe to the word-music school. Expressive rhythm is one thing — enchanting rhythm without significance is quite another story. Like Mallarme, Valery meant by poetic music not only a play of sound but a play of elusive meaning ...
... reviews, etc. was that it was a poetry based on the dream- consciousness, but I don't know if this is correct or merely an English critic's idea of it. The inclusion of Beaudelaire 8 6 and Valery 8 7 seems to indicate something wider than that. But the word is of quite recent origin and nobody spoke formerly of Beaudelaire as a surrealist or even of Mallarme. 8 8 Mallarme was... Rimbaud, 90 both of them poets of great fame—Verlaine is certainly a great poet and people now say Rimbaud also, but I have never come across his poetry except in extracts—and dev- eloping in Valery and other noted writers of today. It seems that all these are now claimed as part of or the origin of the surrealist movement. But I cannot say what are the exact boundaries or who comes in where ...
... you will find little difficulty in divining what I mean and will come to my rescue, now that you have written something so clarifying (albeit a little perplexing too). You write of Mallarme and Valery. But Valery eureka! Him I had in mind: he is unintelligible to all but a very narrow coterie and even they say he is too intellectual and divorced from the life of emotions which makes his poetry admirable ...
... and quotations, the upshot being that it is a poetry based on the dream-consciousness, but I don't know if this is correct or merely an English critic's idea of it. The inclusion of Baudelaire and Valery seems to indicate something wider than that. But the word is of quite recent origin and nobody spoke formerly of Baudelaire as a surrealist or even of Mallanne. Mallarmé was supposed to be the founder... Rimbaud, both of them poets of great fame. Verlaine is certainly a great poet and people now say Rimbaud also, but I have never come across his poetry except in extracts. This strain has developed in Valery and other noted writers of today. It seems that all these are now claimed as part of or the origin of the surrealist movement. But I cannot say what are the exact boundaries or who comes in where. ...
... day. This transitional hour has a particular appeal for Sri Aurobindo: several of his poems, short as well as long, are a-quiver with auroral suggestions. Among contemporary poets, we may point to Valery as also responding very sensitively to the dawn-moment, but the glimmering obscurities of La Feune Parque or the elusive lucidities Page 186 of some other poems of his are "a ...
... Baron speaks of his quest. Gabriel Monod-Herzen (1899), Doctores-Science. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-67), French lyric poet, author of Les fleurs du mal. Paul Valery (1871-1945). Stephane Mallarme (1842-98), French symbolist poet; author of Uapres-midi d'un faune. Paul Verlaine (1844-96), French lyric poet belonging to the Symbolist movement ...
... lecture on Mal-larm6's poetry. For the sort of poetry he wanted to write by yielding the initiative to words is perhaps best indicated in another saying of his, which his friend and semi-follower Paul Valery paraphrases: "Our object is to recover from Music our own right." This means that somehow Music has monopolised what should belong to Poetry also. But when Mallarme's dictum is quoted, people imagine ...
... garden, but - shall we say ? - the Rose of God. Sethna repeatedly quotes Sri Aurobindo, especially on Mallarmé's poetry, and the spinal column of the argument is that past Mallarmé, past Valery, past Yeats, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, there shines Sri Aurobindo the pole star, the laureate of Overhead Poetry and Savitri . In the second part, Sethna remarks that Mallarmé "is likely ...
... States, he was buried in the small cemetery of Bazoches. Later the French realized that they had not been very fair to the man Kennedy called a "statesman of the world", and about whom Francois Valery (the famous poet Paul Valery's son) could say, "Few men have enjoyed so little power and yet exerted so much influence, and one that was so lasting." They realized that they did not know him very well ...
... -Aitareya, 18n -Brihadaranyaka, 14, 15n., 18n., 29-30n -Chhandogya, 12, 20n., 25 -Katha, 19n., 69n -Prasna, 38 -Taittiriya, 44n V AIKUNTHA, 100 Vaishnavism, 100 Valery, 88 Valmiki, 39-40, 62, 73, 83, 85, 187,235 Varona, 28-9, 45, 157, 159-61, 180, 294 Vashishtha, 162 Vagus, 28 Vaughan, 80 -"They Are All Gone", 8On Vayu, 166 Vedas, the, 9, ...
... y unrealisable. The mystic has to express in words experiences that are beyond verbal expression. As Gilbert Highet perceptively says (he is thinking of poets like St John of the Cross, Holderlin, Valery, Donne and T.S. Eliot): These people had a certain experience of life which they found so complex, so dangerous and alarming, so much profounder than normal thought and living, ...
... appreciated even by that part of the general public which is interested in and appreciative of poetry. Yet there is no one who has had more influence on modern French poets—he helped to create Verlaine, Valery and a number of others who rank among the great ones in French literature and he himself too now ranks very high though he must still, I should think, be read only by a comparatively small though select ...
... in the special sense is a mode of poetry consummated first in the France of the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It is associated with the names of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery and some others. But it is not exactly a single mode of poetry. There are varieties of Sym-bolism and not all continue or consummate the Blakean type. Let me give you the main four heads. (1)S ...
... write the last type of poetry and it is through his work of this type that he most influenced the French poets who prepared or founded the school of Symbolism — Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery. But in the three-stanza'd composition before us we have a complexity of consciousness poised in a catholic inspiration with no special bias towards the Symbolic or Symbolist except in so far as the ...
... ’ and the 'universe', the 'thought' and the 'action'. Sethna justifies this by pointing out that "Symbolism subdues the inwardly perceived to the outwardly conceived". With ample examples from Valery, Pierre Emmanuel and Wallace Stevens, Sethna beautifully brings out the dhvani technique of Mallarmé. The commentaries of Sethna, apart from drawing out the wheel-within-wheel significance ...
... translation 210 true soul 28,160 Truth-Consciousness 51 Turiya 99 U Upanishads 3,37,61,141,200,207 Usha 88 V Vaishnavism 273 vāji 302 Valery 62 Valmiki 60,182,205,213 Vaughan 232 Veda 3,61 Vedantic influence in poetry 197 Vidya 302 Vijnana 247 Virat 99 Virgil 57,186,205,258 Vishnu's Garuda 307 ...
... Once only, in 1933, she abandoned these practical questions and went to Madrid to preside over a debate on "the Future of Culture": "Don Quixotes of the spirit who are fighting their windmills," Paul Valery, the initiator of the meeting called them. She astonished her colleagues by her courteous authority and by the originality of her interpositions. The members of the congress were filled in alarm, ...
... self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side of things is intimately associated with the poetic genius of Mallarme and constitutes almost the whole of Valery's. The impassioned lines of a very modern poet like Aragon are also characterised by a consummate virtuosity in chiselled artistry, conscious and deliberate and willed at every step and turn. The ...
... and the Mysterious is a valuable as well as enjoyable book. Your estimate of the Marxist poets chimes with my own, though, like you, I have shared the excitement over C. Day Lewis's rendering of Valery's most famous poem. Even his translation of the Aeneid for broadcasting has given me pleasure on the whole. Much can be forgiven him for giving us the least inadequate version in English of Virgil's ...
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