tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post314429649285927976..comments2023-05-11T03:05:56.248-07:00Comments on Yvor Winters: The American Literary Rhadamanthus: The Clever and the Profound: Paul ValéryBen Kilpelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875096659365405390noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post-17177143080834033942017-11-11T16:35:28.708-08:002017-11-11T16:35:28.708-08:00Thank you for this blog; but the claim that no cri...Thank you for this blog; but the claim that no critic has publicly agreed or disagreed with Winters' assertion about "Ebauche d'un serpent" is false: see Allen Tate's "A Note on Paul Valéry" in his Memoirs and Opinions (Chicago: Swallow, 1975), in which Tate writes that "Le Cimitière Marin" seems to him "a much greater poem than the 'Serpent,'" specifically pp. 135-39, discussing what he sees as the philosophical shortcomings of that poem and briefly discussing how his differences with Winters.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13252912650934294806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post-38657071816510373212009-10-23T06:42:31.095-07:002009-10-23T06:42:31.095-07:00Thanks a bunch, my friend. I will try to do a roug...Thanks a bunch, my friend. I will try to do a rough and ready translation of the poem. It's nice to see it on-line in French, at the very least.<br /><br />Kippis, Ben KilpelaBen Kilpelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12875096659365405390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post-16375566381743007272009-10-21T03:40:28.328-07:002009-10-21T03:40:28.328-07:00It's easy to find Ebauche d'un serpent.&qu...It's easy to find Ebauche d'un serpent."<br /><br />http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89bauche_d%E2%80%99un_serpentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com