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Calligrammes Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)

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ISBN-10: 0520242122

ISBN-13: 9780520242128

Edition: 2004

Authors: Guillaume Apollinaire, Anne Hyde Greet, S. I. Lockerbie

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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 became one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the work of the Surrealists.
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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 525
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Guillaume Apollinaire is one of the most widely read and influential of modern French poets. He was born either in Rome, where he was baptized, or in Monaco, where he was educated at the Lycee Saint-Charles. Quintessentially modern, his reputation rests principally on two volumes of poems-Alcools (1913) and Calligrammes (1918), which broke with the traditions of nineteenth-century poetry in both form and content. Apollinaire introduced free verse, eliminated punctuation, and even wrote poems in the form of pictures to express the dynamism of the new twentieth century. Apollinaire wrote novels, short stories, and plays as well as poetry. He wrote The Cubist Painters (1913), which first…    

Introduction
Ondes Waves
Liens Chains
Les Fenetres Windows
Paysage Landscape
Les Collines The Hills
Arbre Tree
Lundi Rue Christine Monday in Christine Street
Lettre-Ocean Ocean-Letter
Sur les Propheties On Prophecies
Le Musicien de Saint-Merry The Musician of Saint-Merry
La Cravate et la Montre The Tie and the Watch
Un Fantome de Nuees Phantom of Clouds
Coeur Couronne et Miroir Heart Crown and Mirror
Tour Turning Tower
Voyage Trip
A Travers l'Europe Across Europe
Il Pleut It's Raining
Etendards Banners
La Petite Auto The Little Car
La Mandoline l'OEillet et le Bambou Mandolin Carnation and Bamboo
Fumees Smoke
A Nimes At Nimes
La Colombe Poignardee et le Jet d'Eau The Bleeding-Heart Dove and The Fountain
2[superscript e] Canonnier Conducteur 2d Gunnery Driver
Veille Night Watch
Ombre Shadow
C'est Lou Qu'on la Nommait They Called Her Lou
Case d'Armons Flutchel
Loin du Pigeonnier Far From The Dovecote
Reconnaissance Reconnaissance
SP SP
Visee Aim
1915 1915
Carte Postale Postcard
Saillant Salient
Guerre War
Mutation Mutation
Oracles Oracles
14 Juin 1915 June 14, 1915
De la Batterie de Tir Battery of Heavy Guns
Echelon Echelon
Vers le Sud Southward
Les Soupirs du Servant de Dakar The Sighs of the Gunner from Dakar
Toujours Always
Fete Festival
Madeleine Madeleine
Les Saisons The Seasons
Venu de Dieuze On Arrival from Dieuze
La Nuit d'Avril 1915 April Night 1915
Lueurs des Tirs Flash of Gunfire
La Grace Exilee Exiled Grace
La Boucle Retrouvee The Lock of Hair Found
Refus de la Colombe Refusal of the Dove
Les Feux du Bivouac Campfires
Les Grenadines Repentantes The Repentant Grenadines
Tourbillon de Mouches Swirl of Flies
L'Adieu du Cavalier The Cavalier's Farewell
Le Palais du Tonnerre Thunder's Palace
Photographie Snapshot
L'Inscription Anglaise The English Inscription
Dans l'Abri-Caverne In the Dugout
Fusee Flare
Desir Desire
Chant de l'Horizon en Champagne Song of the Horizon in Champagne
Ocean de Terre Ocean of Earth
Obus Couleur de Lune Moon-Colored Shells
Merveille de la Guerre Wonder of War
Exercice Exercise
A l'Italie To Italy
La Traversee The Crossing
Il y a There Is There Are
L'Espionne The Spy
Le Chant d'Amour Love's Hymn
Aussi Bien que les Cigales As Well as the Cicadas
Simultaneites Simultaneities
Du Coton dans les Oreilles Cotton in your Ears
La Tete Etoilee The Starry Head
Le Depart The Departure
Le Vigneron Champenois The Vine Grower of Champagne
Carte Postale Postcard
Eventail des Saveurs Fan of Flavors
Souvenirs Memories
L'Avenir The Future
Un Oiseau Chante A Bird Is Singing
Chevaux de Frise Chevaux-de-Frise
Chant de l'Honneur Honor's Hymn
Chef de Section Platoon Commander
Tristesse d'une Etoile Sorrow of a Star
La Victoire Victory
La Jolie Rousse The Pretty Redhead
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