A fully annotated, bilingual edition, Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but also 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. Calligrammes is a key work not only in ...
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A fully annotated, bilingual edition, Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but also 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. Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice, Apollinaire was one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the Surrealists.
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