Selected poems

Author(s)

• Saint-John Perse
• Caws, Mary Ann

Bibliographic Information

Selected poems

Saint-John Perse ; edited by Mary Ann Caws

（A New Directions paperbook, 547）（A New Directions book）

New Directions, c1982

• : pbk

Other Title

Poems

Note

English and French

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA26852746
• ISBN:
  • 0811208559
• LCCN: 82008305
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engfre
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 143 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ2623.E386
  • DC19 : 841/.912
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975 -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : French poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00345403
  • BA00251296