Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)

This fully annotated bilingual edition of Calligrammes makes available 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.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03/15/2004
Pages: 513
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.10w x 1.34d
ISBN13: 9780520242128
ISBN10: 0520242122
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | General
- Poetry | European | General

About the Author
Anne Hyde Greet is Professor Emeritus of French, University of California, Santa Barbara, and translator of Apollinaire's Alcools (California, 1966). S. I. Lockerbie is Emeritus Professor of French, University of Stirling, Scotland.