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Before la Jeune Parque, Valéry's only publications of note were dialogues, articles, some poems, and a study of Leonardo da Vinci.

In 1920 and 1922, he published two slim collections of verses.

The first, Album des vers anciens ( Album of ancient verses ), was a revision of early but beautifully wrought smaller poems, some of which had been published individually before 1900.

The second, Charmes ( from the Latin carmina, meaning " songs " and also " incantations "), further confirmed his reputation as a major French poet.

The collection includes le Cimetière marin, and many smaller poems with diverse structures.

' Le Cimetière marin ' is mentioned or indirectly implied or referred to in at least four of Iris Murdoch's novels, The Unicorn, The Time of the Angels, The Nice and the Good and The Sea, The Sea.