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  Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Guillaume Apollinaire
Apollinaire was raised in the gambling halls of Monaco, Paris, and the French Riviera; during his education in Cannes, Nice, and Monaco, he assumed the identity of a Russian prince.
Apollinaire's first collection of poetry, L'enchanteur pourrissant, appeared in 1909, and his reputation was established in 1913 with Alcools, a melange of classical versification and modern imagery.
Apollinaire was an important part of several avant-garde movements in French literature and art at the start of the twentieth century.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/737   (381 words)

  
 An Introduction to Guillaume Apollinaire
An indefatigable champion of all that was new and challenging, Apollinaire occupies a central position in the history of the modernist and `avant-garde' movements of the early twentieth century.
Apollinaire insists on the `materiality' of language, that is to say, its existence as visual marks of white on fl or as patterns of sound.
Apollinaire's relationship to the movement as it manifested itself in the early 1920's is not altogether straightforward.
www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0tmc/apo/aponotes.htm   (1637 words)

  
 Guillaume Apollinaire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet, (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) writer, and (A critic of paintings) art critic.
Apollinaire's first collection of (Literature in metrical form) poetry was L'enchanteur pourrissant (1909), but Alcools (1913) established his reputation.
Also in 1913, Apollinaire published the (An analytic or interpretive literary composition) essay "Les Peintres cubistes" on the (An artist who adheres to the principles of cubism) cubist painters, a movement which he helped to define.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guillaume_apollinaire.htm   (537 words)

  
 Guillaume Apollinaire
Apollinaire also edited a number of reviews, published satirical and semi-pornographical texts, and proclaimed that the writing of de Sade would dominate the 20th-century.
Apollinaire died of influenza in the great epidemic of 1918, on November 9, in Paris in his apartment on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Apollinaire's stature has continued to grow since his death, as the precursor of surrealism and as a modernist poet.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /apollina.htm   (1448 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Guillaume Apollinaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic.
Apollinaire's first collection of poetry was L'enchanteur pourrissant (1909), but Alcools (1913) established his reputation.
The war-weakened Apollinaire died of influenza during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guillaume-Apollinaire   (2667 words)

  
 First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Guillaume Apollinaire
Apollinaire kept his origin secret, but he was probably born in Rome as the illegitimate son of a Polish adventurer called Angelica de Kostrowitzky, a rebellious Polish girl.
Apollinaire died of influenza in the great epidemic of 1918, on November 9, in Paris.
Apollinaire's stature has continued to grow since his death, as the precursor of surrealism and as a modernist poet.
www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/apollinaire.htm   (877 words)

  
 APOLLINAIRE
Apollinaire was the impresario of the avant-garde (Roger Shattuck's designation), the link between the poets and the painters, the central figure, with Picasso, in the bar-hopping sociability of early twentieth-century artists.
Picasso in turn painted Apollinaire as a sailor, a full-bellied coffee-pot, the bullfighter Don Guillermo Apollinaire, an up-to-date pope wearing a new-fangled wristwatch and a triple tiara, an academician with a cocked hat and a pipe stuck in his ear, an artilleryman brandishing a saber, and a naked bodybuilder.
Apollinaire also realized that one of the most potent features of the "calligram" is the heightening effect it has on the words from which it is made, and thus it lent itself to his constant endeavor to restore expressiveness to language and to extend the range of poetic expression.
media.ucsc.edu /classes/thompson/apollinaire.html   (2234 words)

  
 Apollinaire, Guillaume. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Apollinaire was a leader in the restless period of technical innovation and experimentation in the arts during the early 20th cent.
Influenced by the symbolist poets of the previous generation, he developed a casual, lyrical poetic style characterized by a blend of modern and traditional images and verse techniques.
A friend of many avant-garde artists, including Picasso and Braque, Apollinaire is credited with introducing cubism with his book Les Peintres cubistes (1913, tr.
www.bartleby.com /65/ap/Apollinair.html   (177 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Guillaume Apollinaire
Apollinaire also championed cubist painters and Cubism, a revolutionary style of the early 20th century that marked the beginning of abstraction in painting.
Apollinaire was fascinated by the relationships between the arts, especially between poetry and painting, and his own poems are very pictorial.
Apollinaire’s writing reflects also his fascination with the modern world.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574292/Guillaume_Apollinaire.html   (371 words)

  
 Apollinaire Online
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 Two Translations of Apollinaire
Apollinaire's masterpiece, composed of 59 quintils of octosyllables, subdivided into seven sections of unequal length, opens with an explanatory, summarizing stanza, which is of the utmost importance in elucidating the reasoning of the poem.
Apparently Apollinaire had a love affair with (or a crush on) a Londoner (Annie) during his stay in Germany, at the time when he was a tutor and she a nanny.
True, he wants to denote that the boy Apollinaire meets is mischievous, but how much better the picture of this "enfant" is rendered by Meredith, when he opts for "hoodlum" ("ruffian" is also an excellent choice of words to describe the boy, for we are dealing with love).
www.accurapid.com /journal/16apoll.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Homage to Apollinaire
Apollinaire's poem Le Musicien de St-Merry describes a musician walking along a precise route in Paris from the Boulevard de Sébastopol to the Rue de la Verrerrie, followed by admiring women.
Here is Rousseau's portrait of Marie Laurencin and Apollinaire with poetic vegetation: and here is a group portrait painted by Marie Laurencin of Picasso, another artist, Apollinaire, herself, a dog and some vegetation.
Apollinaire used to get enamelled in the Closerie des Lilas, which now has brass nameplates on its tables engraved with names of its famous ex-customers.
www.geocities.com /carmenmiranda.geo/Apollinaire1.html   (1783 words)

  
 Marie Laurencin's Biography
Apollinaire encourages Laurencin to publish two of her poems, “Hier” (Yesterday) and “Présent,” which she does under the pseudonym Louise Lalanne in the poetry review Les Marges.
Apollinaire’s book of poems, Alcools with several poems referring to Laurencin, is published, as is Les Peintres cubists, in which she is a prominent figure.
She is buried in the cemetery Père-Lachaise according to her wishes, dressed in white with a rose in one hand and Apollinaire’s love letters by her heart.
www.artsci.wustl.edu /~artarch/womenartists/Modern/marie/laurencin_bio.html   (630 words)

  
 Guillaume Apollinaire
Met Max Jacob and Picasso in 1905 and frequented the artistic and literary circles of the Bateau-Lavoir and Montmarte.
However, Apollinaire would remain a great influence on almost all the poets of both Dada and Surrealism, it even being Apollinaire himself who coined the word "surrealist" to describe his play "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" in 1917.
Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26,1880 - November 9,1918) was a poet, writer and art critic.
www.ubu.com /sound/app.html   (533 words)

  
 Art Enemies - The press release that sparked the Matisse–Picasso rivalry. By Meghan O'Rourke
Apollinaire soon fell in with a group of writers who became known as "la bande à Picasso," and around this time, his enthusiasm for Matisse's work waned.
Apollinaire was an enthusiast, not given to sustaining reasoned admiration or critical rigor—the kind of man who went around saying war was beautiful (until he was fighting in one).
Luckily for us, this was one thing that Apollinaire didn't have the last word on; with his press release, the MoMA grudge match was born, but there's still no winner in sight.
www.slate.com /id/2079553   (1022 words)

  
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Then from 1907 to 1912 Apollinaire was tumultuously involved with Marie Laurencin, a “wide-eyed, mischievous, slender” painter in whom, precisely “because she both yielded to him and escaped him, he found embodied … the unstilled rhythm of love and disappointment which stimulated him most profoundly” (the words are Shattuck’s).
Apollinaire was, by contrast, able to work exciting changes in the traditional French lines without subsiding into subjectivist sprawl.
Shattuck’s homely fidelity keeps close to the original, though Apollinaire’s variations in meter and rhyme (he prided himself on renovating the eight-syllable line and on revolutionizing masculine and feminine rhyme) are far more subtle and daring, as in the first line’s choriamb-like swing.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/14/dec95/lyons.htm   (1952 words)

  
 1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 28 - Guillaume Apollinaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
As a soldier occasionally with time to spare, when not writing letters or poetry Apollinaire tried his hand at drawing and colour.
He does not always show impeccable skill, but he does have a definite sense of humour - something he shares with the portrait Picasso did of him in 1914 in a pastiche of traditional popular prints.
It may be possible to recognise the odd trace here and there of Apollinaire's artistic friendships, if only in his parody of Matisse's Moorish scenes.
www.art-ww1.com /gb/texte/028text.html   (124 words)

  
 Abbaye de Stavelot
Guillaume Apollinaire came to spend his holidays in Stavelot when he was 19 years of age.
The Guillaume Apollinaire Museum evokes the poet’s stay in the region and immerses visitors in the artistic universe of the author of "Chanson du Mal-Aimé".
Starting from the Abbey, visitors can follow an Apollinaire circuit, which will not fail to lead them in the footsteps of Marie Dubois, Guillaume’s “beloved” from Stavelot, to the former Constant boarding house, from where Guillaume did a moonlight flit.
www.abbayedestavelot.be /code/en/muse_03.asp   (168 words)

  
 Poetry Daily Feature: Guillaume Apollinaire / tr. Donald Revell - The Self-Dismembered Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement.
Guillaume Apollinaire’s final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of World War I. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness.
Here, too, is Apollinaire’s last testament, “The Pretty Redhead,” a farewell to the epoch that he — as poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardier — did so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918.
www.poems.com /selfdapo.htm   (418 words)

  
 UPNE | The Self-Dismembered Man
Here, too, is Apollinaire’s last testament, “The Pretty Redhead,” a farewell to the epoch that he—as poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardier—did so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918.
Readers of Apollinaire’s more familiar early work, Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995), will find here a darker and yet more tender poet, a poet of the broken world who shares entirely the world’s catastrophe even as he praises to the end its glamour and its strange innocence.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918) was a central figure in the Modernist movement in Europe where, with Matisse, he gave Cubism its name.
www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/0-8195-6690-X.html   (322 words)

  
 Poetry Previews: Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) played a central part in the avant-garde movement that swept through the French literary and artistic circles during the early 20th century.
Apollinaire is credited for introducing the word "surrealist" for the first time, which appeared in his introduction to the drama "The Breasts of Tiresias" (1918).
"Saffrons" exemplifies Apollinaire's strange and inventive use of what we now recognize as surrealism: "Dressed like hiccups playing harmonicas." However, this poem is very understandable on an emotional level: the metaphor of poison carrying through the poem in juxtaposition of beauty and life through the image of flowers (saffron).
www.poetrypreviews.com /poets/poet-apollinaire.html   (349 words)

  
 Romanic Review: Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism
The new volume of Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters published by Peter Read is divided into two parts, first a new translation of the 1913 French text, then Read's own Apollinaire and Cubism, a chapter by chapter commentary.
Yet in his failure to define Apollinaire's other two types of Cubism, the Physical and the Instinctive, Read's injunction that the poet's categories be revisited and reassessed falls flat.
As the "inventor" of Cubism with Braque, Picasso is regaled with a prose poem that mutatis mutandis prefigures Eluard's 1922 collaboration with Ernst, Les Malheurs des immortels.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3806/is_200405/ai_n9468974   (648 words)

  
 "Sol Funaroff: Apollinaire of the Proletariat"--by Alan Wald
Most of his classes were during evening sessions so he could work all day as an upholsterer's apprentice, in a baking factory, and as a relief investigator.
The lines apparently resonated with Funaroff’s sense that he, a poet-seer, was living in a era of epochal transformations, yet his own fragile grip on life was unlikely to permit him to witness the outcome.
Moreover, Apollinaire’s haunting strophes correlated with Funaroff’s personal temperament, not unfamiliar among the avant-garde, of having a blind faith in a future about which he was rarely specific.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/funaroff/wald.htm   (3578 words)

  
 Hotel Apollinaire OFFICIAL SITE - 3 star in Montparnasse - Paris France - Saint Germain des Pres - les Invalides
The Apollinaire Hotel is happy to welcome you in the heart of Montparnasse, in the 14th district of Paris.
In this very famous and living area of Paris, where in the old time the painters and writers have contributed to create its particular soul, you will discover this nice hotel, close to the famous restaurants la Coupole, le Dôme, la Rotonde...
L'hôtel Apollinaire vous accueille au Coeur du quartier Montparnasse, dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris.
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 The Cubist Painters
This is the principal virtue of the new translation, yet this virtue is not simply one of fidelity, for Read's translation also serves to clarify the position of Apollinaire's 1913 text in relation to other early accounts of Cubism.
His account of the genesis of the book and of Apollinaire's revisions of the proofs are particularly valuable.
This collection of essays and reviews, written between 1905 and 1912, is a milestone in the history of art criticism, valued today as both a work of reference and a classic example of modernist creative writing.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10310.html   (696 words)

  
 Apollinaire - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
Apollinaire was a leader in the restless period of technical innovation...many avant-garde artists, including Picasso and Braque, Apollinaire is credited with introducing cubism with his book...
Before World War I, he was associated with Apollinaire, Picasso, and Braque, his poetry conveying a flood of images...surrealism and the nouveau roman, and he had a strong influence on Apollinaire.
Apollinaire coined the term orphism to describe the lyrical, shimmering chromatic effects that these painters sought to introduce into...
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