The French poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) succeeded, according to critic Roger Caillois, "in giving as a acene for his sholly 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 worksAnabasis, Praises, Exile, Rains, Snows, Winds, Seamarks, Chronique, Birds, and Song fro an Equinox, in translations by T. S. Eliot, Louise Varese, Denis Devlin, Hugh Chisholm, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Fitzgerald, and Richard Howard.
The French poet Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) succeeded, according to critic Roger Caillois, "in giving as a acene for his sholly 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 worksAnabasis, Praises, Exile, Rains, Snows, Winds, Seamarks, Chronique, Birds, and Song fro an Equinox, in translations by T. S. Eliot, Louise Varese, Denis Devlin, Hugh Chisholm, Wallace Fowlie, Robert Fitzgerald, and Richard Howard.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780811208550 |
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Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publication date: | 11/17/1982 |
Series: | New Directions Book Series |
Pages: | 143 |
Sales rank: | 679,793 |
Product dimensions: | 5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d) |