St.-John Perse

[ sin-juhn purs ]

noun

1. Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.

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Today, the influence of Rimbaud is visible in the works of such diverse poets as Nobel Prizewinner St. John Perse and Beatnik Allen Ginsberg, in the prose effusions of novelists as different as Henry Miller and William Faulkner.

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Leger calmly proceeded to repair the damage done the career of St.-John Perse.

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At 71, St.-John Perse finds the answer in the inexhaustible symbol of the sea.

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