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Alan Williamson: A Forgotten Modernist: St-John Perse (July 2006)

$5.00

The French poet St.-John Perse was an international celebrity when he won the Nobel Prize in 1960, so why, asks Alan Williamson, is he almost never read today? Williamson sees in Perse a lost Whitmanesque strain in Modernism, one of plenitude rather than deconstructive self-cancellation. Williamson introduces us to Perse’s work, focusing on his collection Rains, and exploring what he calls the “indescribably delicate” balance in the poems between self-contempt and a kind of expansive, “reverent freshness.”  

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Poetry
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Williamson, Alan

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