Saint-John Perse

a poem

Anabasis

Birds

Amers/Oiseaux/Poesie

El mar y el hombre - Antología

Amers, suivi de Oiseaux et de Poésie

The Description for this book, Exile and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.

*Léger, Alexis Saint-Léger, 1889- Autograph

La poesia, soleva dire Saint-John Perse, è fatta per l’orecchio interno. Anabasi è un poema allegorico che parla, in senso proprio, di una conquista militare – non localizzata nello spazio o nel tempo –, e, in senso figurato, di una conquista spirituale. “È il poema della solitudine nell’azione, azione tra gli uomini e nel contempo azione dello spirito, rivolta verso gli altri come verso sé stesso.” Nel tracciare le gesta dell’anonimo conquistatore che fonda la sua città “sotto le labiali d’un nome puro”, è sottesa l’avventura del poema sul punto di nascere – puledro nella canzone che lo apre, cavallo in quella che lo chiude. Il poeta è l’interprete del mondo, ne decifra i caratteri con tutti i “fiutatori di segni, di semenze, confessori di soffi in Ovest; scrutatori di piste, di stagioni, levatori di campi nel venticello dell’alba”, e progressivamente ricompone il suo tempo interiore, che è aspirazione all’assenza di limiti e superamento delle frontiere.

Anabasi

Chronique by St.-John Perse

Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hammarskjold

Marie René Auguste Alexis Leger

Affords an English-speaking audience rare access to the revealing correspondence between two Nobel prize winners. Marie-Noelle Little's expansive prologue to this book, sets the stage for situating the two world-renowned personalities in their exchange of letters during the six years before Hammarskjold's death. The letters themselves are characterized by world vision, a noble tone, and delicate sentiments. Alexis Leger - later known as the poet Saint-John Perse - and Dag Hammarskjold were important figures in diplomatic and literary spheres and their lives shared a number of uncanny parallels that eventually brought them into contact with one another. Alexis Leger, French Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, perhaps saw in Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold the continuation of his diplomatic career, while Hammarskjold, in the midst of difficult international crisies, found inspiration and strength in reading and translating Perse's poem Chronique. This correspondence has both literary and political content that sheds light on some of the major political events of the day but also serves as an important manifestation of the tradition of connecting diplomacy and the arts.

The Correspondence of Dag Hammarskjöld and Alexis Leger

The Poet and the Diplomat

Anabasis, a Poem by St.-J. Perse [pseud.] with a Translation Into English by T. S. Eliot

Saint-John Perse: Selected Poems

Letters (of) St-John Perse

A Poem by St.-John Perse [pseud.] Translated by T.S. Eliot

Saint-John Perse A version by Derek Mahon These are birds, pure and simple, nothing more, their truth the secret of life itself . . . Derek Mahon s previous translation work includes versions of Jaccottet (Words in the Air, 1998) and Valéry (The Seaside Cemetery, 2001). To these he now adds Birds by Saint-John Perse whose long, discursive, musical texts owe something to Rimbaud s Illuminations but are finally unique. Among twentieth-century poets Perse is remarkable for his oceanic qualities, his global reach and philosophical optimism. Birds is about birds, but also about the artistic vocation itself, Yeats s lonely impulse of delight

Anabasis - Eksil

"For Perse these lines are brief, but they are as fine as anything he has done." With these words The Times Literary Supplement greeted the publication in France of the last four poems written by the Nobel Prize winner before his death in 1975. This volume provides their French texts with an English translation by Richard Howard, completing the publication in Bollingen Series of the collected poetry of St.-John Perse. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Song for an Equinox

Anábasis

St John Perse

This internationally famous poem by the 1960 Nobel laureate was introduced to English-language readers in this translation by T. S. Eliot. In this definitive edition, French and English texts appear on facing pages. Preface by T. S. Eliot.

A Poem

T. S. Eliot

Distinguished Professor of English French and Comparative Literature Mary Ann Caws

Poems by the Nobel prizewinner deal with the regeneration of life, the purity of nature, and our relationship with time and the world

Selected Poems

The Collected Poems of the Nobel laureate and poet-statesman are here reissued with the posthumous Song for an Equinox, to form a complete edition of his poetic oeuvre, including also his I960 Nobel speech On Poetry" and his 1965 essay on Dante. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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