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Calligrammes by Guillaume Apollinaire
Category: Poetry
A fully annotated, bilingual edition, "Calligrammes "is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire--Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice--died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless, he ...Show more
Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art of Century Collection
Transforming natural forms into cylinders and cubes, painters like Juan Gris and Robert Delaunay, driven by Braque and Picasso, imposed a new vision upon the world, in total opposition to the principles of the Impressionists.
Letters to Madeleine: Tender as Memory by Guillaume Apollinaire
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: French List
"Letters to Madeleine" collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to his fiancee, Madeleine Pages, during World War I. This fascinating correspondence bears witness to the typical yet deeply idiosyncratic experience of Apollinaire at ...Show more
Selected Poems with parallel French text by Guillaume Apollinaire
Category: Poetry
'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his experimentalism heralded a new artistic order. ...Show more
Selected Writings by Guillaume Apollinaire, Roger Shattuck
Category: Poetry
When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led the migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre to Montparnasse; he had helped formulate the prin ...Show more
Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire
Category: Education
Zone: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett's fifty-year engagement with the great French poet's life and work. Zone provides an exciting experience of the full range of Apollinaire's poetry, from his traditional lyric verse to his avant-garde calligrammatic ...Show more
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