"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.
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