The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Jamais, charmes du jour, jamais vos grâces n’ont Tant sou√ert ...

PAUL VALÉRY Never, charm of daylight, has your grace So su√ered from self-defense, Yet, since the suns drew me from childhood, I ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Quel pur travail de fins éclairs consume Maint diamant d’imper ...

PAUL VALÉRY When, as now, light freezes above the gulf, a gem revolving in its radiant gleam such many-faceted and glittering fo ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Ô pour moi seul, à moi seul, en moi-même, Auprès d’un cœur, au ...

PAUL VALÉRY Stopped at a cistern with a pumping heart between the vacuum and the creative act whispering to my preliminary tact, ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Tu n’as que moi pour contenir tes craintes! Mes repentirs, mes ...

PAUL VALÉRY I am the one your worst fears validate— my cowardice, my bad thoughts, my contrition make up the one flaw in your pr ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Amour, peut-être, ou de moi-même haine? Sa dent secrète est de ...

PAUL VALÉRY Self-love, self-hatred, what’s the di√erence? Its secret mordancy is so intense the silent gnawing goes by many name ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism La Rançon Viens, nous pénétrerons le secret du flot clair, Et ...

Renée Vivien (Pauline Tarn) 1877–1909 london, england V ivien was a prolific poet, one of the last to claim allegiance to the Sy ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Tes yeux ressembleront aux torches de phosphore A travers la p ...

RENÉE VIVIEN Your eyes will gleam like phosphor Through the dusk where no dawn laughs. I am the being your bare breast once char ...

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2 1916–1930: Dada and the Heroic Period of Surrealism Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Samuel Beckett, André Bret ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Deuxième Aventure céleste de M. Antipyrine (The Second Celestial Adv ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism exile of many Surrealist painters and poets, including Breton, André ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Tristan Tzara, Oeuvres complètes, ed. Henri Béhar, vol. 1, 1912–192 ...

Louis Aragon 1897–1982 paris, france A ragon was a noted poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has ex- ercised an enormous inf ...