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

By Guillaume Apollinaire

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520073908
• ISBN13: 9780520073906
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 525 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

a masterpiece

This work is nothing short of a masterpiece. If you're just being introduced to poetry or Guillaume Apollinaire, this is a must-read. I can't even begin to describe the depth and meaning found in every word of this book. The only complaint I have is that the translations were not always accurate, but with a book of this size, there are inevitably going to be small translation errors. Read it! It will change your life.