French Literature Reviews - 2026

Agrégation Saint-John Perse: Vents, Chronique, Chant pour un équinoxe
Poetry and Poetics

Colette Camelin, Joëlle Gardes Tamine
Saint-John Perse. Vents, Chronique, Chant pour un équinoxe.

Atlande
Series: "Clefs concours Lettres XXe siècle"
2006
ISBN: 2-350-30033-1
220 pages
19 euros

Colette Camelin is a professor at the University of Poitiers. Joëlle Gardes Tamine is a professor at Paris IV University.

Saint-John Perse occupies a distinct position in twentieth-century French poetry through his expansive, lyrical long poems that engage with history, geography, and human civilization. The collections Vents, Chronique, and Chant pour un équinoxe represent major phases of his output. Scholars Colette Camelin and Joëlle Gardes Tamine explore these specific texts, providing academic commentary on set literary works.

Readers interested in twentieth-century French poetry may find this volume relevant to their studies. The book provides scholarly analysis of the three designated collections by Saint-John Perse, authored by literature professors Colette Camelin and Joëlle Gardes Tamine.