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About 192 pages (57,691 words) in 21 products |
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Saint-John Perse | | Birth Date: |
May 31, 1887 | | Death Date: |
September 20, 1975 | | Place of Birth: |
Guadeloupe, West Indies | | Place of Death: |
Giens, France | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, diplomat |
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 Biography of Saint-John Perse
661 words, approx. 2 pages
 The French poet and diplomat, Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) ranks among the greatest French poets of the 20th century. His work is epic in nature, characterized by a cosmic vision and a lofty rhetoric. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960.... summary from source:
 Biography of (Marie-Rene) (Auguste) Alexis Saint-Leger Leger
3,824 words, approx. 13 pages
 Saint-John Perse is chiefly remembered for his antiphonal, psalmodic celebration of a vitalist natural religion founded on the principle of the coincidentia oppositorum (coincidence of opposites). Perse specialists have long recognized that he embodies... 
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 The Modern Language Review Saint-John Perse.(Book review)
04/01/2006: 519 words, approx. 2 pages Saint-John Perse. By COLETTE CAMELIN and CATHERINE MAYAUX. (Bibliographie des ecrivains francais, 26) Paris and Rome: Memini. 2003. 340 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 88-86609-42-6. It was high time that a consolidated bibliography of work by and on Saint-John Perse was published, replacing... summary from source:
The Modern Language Review La Creolite de Saint-John Perse.(Review)
10/01/2001: 571 words, approx. 2 pages La Creolite de Saint-John Perse. By MARY GALLAGHER. (Cahiers Saint-John Perse, 14) Paris: Gallimard. 1998. 470 pp. 150F. The question of cultural belonging has long been one of the primary preoccupations of both authors and critics of Caribbean writing. Given their shared...
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Critical Essay by Katherine Garrison Chapin
5,642 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Chapin examines contradictory elements of Léger's poetry, describing them as the "aristocratic" and "primitive" aspects of his writing.
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