Robert Donald Davidson Gibson

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BIOGRAPHY

Emeritus Professor of French, University of Kent at Canterbury, England. Author of Modern French Poets on Poetry.

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Paul Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and critic. His greatest poem is considered La Jeune Parque (1917; “The Young Fate”), which was followed by Album de vers anciens 1890–1900 (1920) and Charmes ou poèmes (1922), containing “Le Cimetière marin” (“The Graveyard by the Sea”). He later wrote a…