The French poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) succeeded, according to critic Roger Caillois, "in giving as a scene for his wholly spiritual chronicles a kind of supreme civilization, composed of the essence of those which history records and going beyond them in grandeur and majesty." In this bilingual edition of the Selected Poems , editor Mary Ann Caws has assembled extracts from all his major works-- Anabasis , Praises , Exile , Rains , Snows , Winds , Seamarks , Chronique , Birds , and Song for an Equinox , in ...
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The French poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) succeeded, according to critic Roger Caillois, "in giving as a scene for his wholly spiritual chronicles a kind of supreme civilization, composed of the essence of those which history records and going beyond them in grandeur and majesty." In this bilingual edition of the Selected Poems , editor Mary Ann Caws has assembled extracts from all his major works-- Anabasis , Praises , Exile , Rains , Snows , Winds , Seamarks , Chronique , Birds , and Song for an Equinox , in translations by T. S. Eliot, Louise Varse, Denis Devlin, Hugh Chisholm, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Fitzgerald, and Richard Howard
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