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Selected Poems
G Apollinaire
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Description for Selected Poems
Paperback. Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'. Translator(s): Bernard, Oliver. Series: Poetica. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh and memorable.
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh and memorable.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Poetica
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856463594
SKU
V9780856463594
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About G Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880. Educated in Monaco and Nice, he became a French citizen only in 1916, after service in the artillery and infantry. He was badly wounded in the head in 1916, and died during the Paris flu epidemic in 1918. As prose writer and art critic as well as poet, Apollinaire was the moving ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Poems
'Oliver Bernard's translations from Apollinaire are immediately engaging in their vividness and humour.'Christopher Ricks, New Statesman