Books by Christine M. Crow

This is one of the first studies to treat Valery's theory and practice of poetry together and is the first full-length study of his poetry in English. Discussion of his ideas on poetic composition leads to a detailed analysis of the principal poetry: the long term poem La Jeune Parque and all the poems in the main collection.

Dr Crow shows that self-awareness for Valery was the mainspring of a sensitive and detailed involvement with the forms and processes of the natural world. The book provides one of the first comprehensive studies of the underlying unity of Valery's poetry and thought.