He claimed that a poem is never complete, but is merely "abandoned," in an essay which responded to a lecture by Gustave Cohen.
This author wrote that all the events of his life, though apparently his own acts, were "the work of some other, and each is signed with a name" in the last of his essays on poetry, "Variations on the ‘Eclogues.'" He claimed that a poem is never complete, but is merely "abandoned," in an essay which responded to a lecture by Gustave Cohen. In that essay, this author claimed that his most famous poem came to him in the shape of a composition in stanzas of six lines of ten syllables, and discussed some lines in which he wrote about Zeno of Elea. This author of Idée Fixe and Monsieur Teste wrote about visiting some (*) tombs in the city of Sète in his best-known poem. For 10 points, name this French author of the poems "The Young Fate" and "The Cemetery by the Sea."
This author wrote that all the events of his life, though apparently his own acts, were "the work of some other, and each is signed with a name" in the last of his essays on poetry, "Variations on the ‘Eclogues.'"
{Paul Valéry}