The collection "Poetry" by Paul Eluard, which we bring to the attention of readers, does not have the ambition to fill the gaps left by the previous editions, but reflects to a large extent the biases of translation and is rather a "personal anthology". Eluard is a poetic universe, an emanation of poetry. He seems to have taken the best of the poetics of surrealism and refracted it through his unique sensibility to create poems that revolutionized 20th century European poetry.