Word: ploughland
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...Perse never allows the hope of purification and renewal to gutter out. In Anabasis (1924), his best-known work, partly thanks to an excellent translation by T.S. Eliot, Perse tells of the seedtime of history. Man, the nomad, ranges out over the deserts of the East, "Ploughland of dream." He raises and then razes a city. In Winds (1946), great storms sweep across Europe, "leaving us in their wake, Men of straw in the year of straw." The restless hero finds himself in the West as Perse conjures up the discovery and dynamism of America-"the great expresses . . . with their...
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