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INTRODUCTION:

The foremost French poet of the 20th century, Paul Valery is also renowned for his introspective prose and astute critical essays. Valery was an obsessively formalistic poet, influenced more by Mallarme than Baudelaire or Rimbaud, yet his poems are filled with an acute self-awareness that separates Valery from his precursors. Despite their strict forms, Valery's poems are best known for their musical yet elaborate rhetoric, which influenced Rilke and Stevens.