Calligrammes

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. Book jacket.Apollinaire, Guillaume is the author of 'Calligrammes' with ISBN 9780520019683 and ISBN 0520019687.