Saint-John Perse

/ ˈsɪndʒən ˈpɜːs /

noun

1. See Perse

Example Sentences

Appointed last fall as India’s ambassador to the United States, Navtej Sarna carries on the noble tradition of the writer-diplomat, like Nobel Prize-winning poets Pablo Neruda and Saint-John Perse before him.

From Washington Post

“So many poets have the courage to look into the abyss,” Kenneth Koch wrote in an appreciation of the French poet and diplomat Saint-John Perse, “but Perse had the courage to look into happiness.”

From New York Times

It is not clear why Anouilh was passed over, but the French poet Saint-John Perse had taken the Nobel in 1960, meaning that France was well represented on the roster of winners, and Svenska Dagbladet reveals that Jean-Paul Sartre, who would win the prize in 1964, was starting to be seriously considered as a candidate.

From The Guardian

The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet Saint-John Perse�who went on to win the Nobel Prize in 1960.

From Time Magazine Archive

By this standard, France's Saint-John Perse was a giant from the beginning, for he wrote of the oceans, the deserts, the globe, and of a timeless Man.

From Time Magazine Archive