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]