保尔·瓦雷里(旧译名保罗·梵乐希,Paul Valéry,1871—1945)在我国一小部分读者当中并不是完全陌生的名字。梁宗岱教授,远在二十年代中期就译过他的早期作《水仙辞》并写介绍文章,发表在《小说月报》上,相当受人注意。后来他在三十年代还译过瓦雷里的晚期作《水仙断片》,并把这些译品都收入了他在1936年出版的译诗集《一切的峰顶》(上海时代图书公司发行)。我自己 Paul Valery (Old Translation Paul Valéry, 1871-1945) is not a completely new name among a small group of our readers. Professor Liang Zongdai, far away in the mid-1920s, translated his early works as “narcissus” and wrote an introductory essay, published in the “Novel Monthly”, which received considerable attention. Later, in the 1930s, he also translated Valery’s later works as “The Narcissistic Fragment,” and included all these translations in his 1936 book, Peaks of All, published by the Shanghai Times Book Company. Myself