Letters / Saint-John Perse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saint-John Perse, 1887-1975, author.

Contributor:

Knodel, Arthur, 1916-2001.

Bollingen Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)

Series:

Bollingen series ; LXXXVII, 2.

Works by St.-John Perse ; 692

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetes français--20e siecle--Correspondance.

Poetes français.

Poets, French--20th century--Correspondence.

Poets, French.

Saint-John Perse--Correspondance.

Saint-John Perse--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (755 pages) : 1 illustrations, facsimiles, portraits.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presented here in English translation are letters selected for publication by the poet himself, shortly before his death, from his wide correspondence with famous writers and public figures such as W. H. Auden, Francis and Katherine Biddle, Paul Claudel, Joseph Conrad, E. E. Cummings, Mina Curtiss, T. S. Eliot, André Gide, Dag Hammarskjöld, Archibald MacLeish, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Riviére, Igor Stravinsky, Allen Tate, and Paul Valéry.Originally published in 1979.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chronology And Abbreviations

List Of Illustrations

EARLY LETTERS

LETTERS TO GUSTAVE-ADOLPHE MONOD (1906-1911)

LETTERS TO JACQUES RIVIÈRE (1909-1922)

LETTERS TO ALAIN-FOURNIER (1911-1912)

LETTERS TO PAUL CLAUDEL (1906-1914)

LETTERS TO GABRIEL FRIZEAU (1907-1909)

LETTERS TO FRANCIS JAMMES (1906-1912)

LETTERS TO ANDRÉ GIDE (1910-1914)

LETTERS TO VALERY LARBAUD (1911-1925)

LETTER TO GASTON GALLIMARD (1924)

LETTERS FROM ASIA

LETTER TO PHILIPPE BERTHELOT

LETTERS TO ALEXANDRE CONTY

LETTERS TO PAUL VALÉRY

LETTER TO DOCTOR BUSSIÈRE

LETTER TO JULES DAMOUR

LETTERS TO MADAME AMÉDÉE SAINT-LEGER LEGER (1917-1921)

LETTER TO JOSEPH CONRAD

LETTER TO A EUROPEAN LADY

LETTER TO GUSTAVE-ADOLPHE MONOD

LETTER TO JACQUES RIVIÈRE

LETTER TO GUSTAVE-CHARLES TOUSSAINT

LETTER TO ANDRÉ GIDE

LETTERS FROM EXILE

LETTERS TO MRS. FRANCIS BIDDLE (1940-1957)

LETTERS TO FRANCIS BIDDLE (1942-1965)

LETTERS TO MRS. ROBERT WOODS BLISS (1948-1953)

LETTERS TO ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1940-1960)

LETTERS TO ROGER CAILLOIS (1942-1955)

LETTERS TO ALLEN TATE (1944-1960)

LETTERS TO MAX-POL FOUCHET (1947-1948)

LETTERS TO LOUIS-MARCEL RAYMOND (1947-1966)

LETTERS TO ADRIENNE MONNIER (1948)

LETTERS TO ANDRÉ GIDE (1948-1949)

LETTERS TO PAUL CLAUDEL (1948-1950)

LETTER TO JULES SUPERVIELLE (1949)

LETTERS TO JEAN PAULHAN (1949-1966)

LETTERS TO G.-JEAN AUBRY (1949)

LETTERS TO Τ. S. ELIOT (1949-1958)

LETTER TO Ε. Ε. CUMMINGS (1949)

LETTERS TO W. H. AUDEN (1949-1958)

LETTERS TO MRS. HENRY TOMLINSON CURTISS (ΜΙΝΑ CURTISS) (1951-1959)

LETTERS TO ALAIN BOSQUET (1951-1955)

LETTERS TO PIERRE GUERRE (1956-1964)

LETTER TO HENRI PEYRE (!956)

LETTER TO MONSIEUR HUGUES LE GALLAIS (I957)

LETTERS TO DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD (1958-1960)

LETTER FOR MARK VAN DOREN (!959)

LETTER TO ANDRÉ ROUSSEAUX (»959)

LETTER TO MARIA MARTINS (1960)

LETTER TO JUAN JOSÉ CASTRO (1960)

LETTER TO MADAME KUMAR NEHRU (1961)

LETTERS TO IGOR STRAVINSKY (1958-1962)

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Translation of the selection of letters made by the author and published in 1972 by Gallimard, Paris, as part of the Pléiade ed. of his Oeuvres complètes.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691615103

0691615101

9780691642642

0691642648

9780691018362

0691018367

9781400856404

140085640X

OCLC:

889255700