SOURCE: "Chapter IX: Frances Jammes," in Catholic Literary France: from Verlaine to the Present Time, Books for Libraries Press, 1969, pp. 123-38.

In the following essay, originally published in 1938, Keeler provides an overview of Jammes's major works.

The year 1935 saw the publication of De tout temps à jamais, by a poet who had been for a time silent. Though Francis Jammes is an old man now, we find in this latest volume of poems all the charming freshness and artless beauty of his early work. He ever remains the simple, humble poet of country life, who lives and writes far from Paris, in his beloved country of the Hautes-Pyrénées. He belongs to an old Creole family and many of the traits of his ancestors appear in his books which emit a perfume of exoticism, a fragrance of bygone days.

In his three volumes of memoirs, he tells us...