Front matter
Teresa Frances Benét translation
BY
PAUL CLAUDEL
“Look East, where whole new thousands are!”
BROWNING
TRANSLATED BY
TERESA FRANCES AND WILLIAM ROSE BENÉT
NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXIV
COPYRIGHT, 1914 First printed one thousand copies October, 1914
Yale University Press:
... I should be most happy and honored if my works could be brought to the attention of the American public under the shelter and patronage of the illustrious University of which you are a part.
Paul Claudel
March 28, 1914
CONTENTS
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Paul Claudel vii
1895-1900
The Cocoa Palm 1
The Pagoda 4
The City at Night 12
Gardens 17
The Feast of the Dead in the Seventh Month 22
Thoughts on the Sea 25
Cities 27
The Theater 29
Tombs and Rumors 33
The Entrance to the Earth 39
The Religion of Letters 42
The Banyan 47
Toward the Mountain 49
The Great Sea 52
The Temple of Consciousness 54
October 56
November 58
Painting 61
The Solitary 62
December 64
Tempest 66
The Pig 68
The Source 70
Doors 73
The River 76
The Rain 79
Night on the Verandah 81
The Splendor of the Moon 83
Dreams 85
Heat 89
The Vision of a City 91
Descending the River 93
The Bell 95
The Tomb 99
The Melancholy Water 104
The Night Voyage 106
The Halt on the Canal 108
The Pine-Tree 113
The Arch of Gold in the Forest 118
The Pedestrian 124
Here and There 127
The Sedentary 138
The Earth Viewed from the Sea 142
Salutation 144
The Hanging House 148
The Spring 150
The Tide at Noon 153
The Peril of the Sea 156
On Light 159
Hours in the Garden 162
The Brain 167
Leaving the Land 170
1900-1905
The Lamp and the Bell 175
The Deliverance of Amaterasu 178
A Visit 187
The Rice 189
The Period 191
The Toast to a Future Day 193
The Day of the Feast of all the Rivers 194
The Golden Hour 197
Dissolution 198