Selected Poems
1986
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Apollinaire was the moving spirit of French modernism, and his poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. He is remembered as much for his traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of "Calligrammes". He championed the Cubist painters, and his poetry is a literary counterpart to their innovative work.
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Author
Guillaume Apollinaire
Author · 22 books
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire, was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947).
