Books by Guillaume Apollinaire
Selected Poems: with parallel French text (Oxford World's Classics)
'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his experimentalism heralded a new artistic order. In the Paris of the belle epoque, Apollinaire's prolific writing - poems, short stories, erotic novels, art criticism - as well as his magnetic personality brought him fame and even some notoriety. His two great collections of poetry, Alcools and Calligrammes, made his reputation, and they include love poems as well as the war poetry for which he is best known. Apollinaire coined the word 'surrealism', and he led the literary and artistic avant-garde right up to his death two days before the Armistice, weakened by injuries received earlier in the War.
This new selection by Martin Sorrell covers the full range of Apollinaire's career, and includes some of the poet's inventive pictorial calligrams. The introduction and notes explore his seminal role in the culture of the twentieth century.
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Alcools suivi de Le Bestiaire illustré par Raoul Dufy ; et de Vitam impendere amori
Zone, Le pont Mirabeau, La chanson du mal aimé, Réponse des cosaques, Voie lactée, Les colchiques, Palais, Crépuscule, La maison des morts, Clotilde, Cortège, Marizibill, Le voyageur, Marie, La blanche neige, L'adieu, Salomé, La porte, Saltimbanques, Le vent nocturne, La tzigane, Automne, L'émigrant de Landor Road, Rosemonde, Le brasier, Descendant des hauteurs, Nuit rhénane, Mal, Les cloches, Les sapins, Signe, Un soir, La dame, Les fiançailles..... Poèmes dits par Daniel Gelin
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Alcools (French Edition)
by Guillaume Apollinaire, Gallimard Folio edition
"Moi qui sais des lais pour les reines Les complaintes de mes années Des hymnes d'esclave aux murènes La romance du mal aimé Et des chansons pour les sirènes" Cent ans après sa publication, Alcools demeure une référence incontournable de la poésie mondiale. La présente édition en propose une approche intime et témoigne de son influence toujours présente. Elle comprend entre autres, outre le recueil original, de malicieux souvenirs de Paul Léautaud, des lettres de Guillaume Apollinaire, un lexique et onze hommages en vers par certains des plus grands poètes des XXᵉ et XXIᵉ siècles.
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Calligrammes: EDITION AVEC DOSSIER
Apollinaire is one of the leading figures in early 20th century French poetry & the 'Calligrammes' represents an important stage in his development.
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Letters to Madeleine: Tender as Memory (French List)
When Guillaume Apollinaire was sent to the trenches during World War I, he had already published his groundbreaking book of poems, Alcools, inspiring artists of the budding Surrealist movement and making a foundational mark on twentieth-century literature. The letters he sent to his fiancée Madeleine Pagès while fighting on the front in Champagne offer an unprecedented look into the life and mind of this literary great. Ranging from memories of his childhood in Rome with his mother (a Polish noblewoman) to his reflections on literary giants like Racine and Tolstoy, the letters also chronicle his daily life as a soldier in the brutal Great War. Letters to Madeleine is a moving portrait of a poet facing one of humanity’s starkest realities, and it will be of interest not only to fans of Apollinaire but to those interested in personal accounts of the First World War as well.
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Bestiary: or the Parade of Orpheus
Thirty short poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, with woodcuts by Raoul Dufy, of Dufy, that celebrate mammals, birds, fish, insects, and the mythical poet and prophet Orpheus―filled with surprising images, wit, formal mastery, and wry irony.
First published in 1911, and embellished with the graphically sophisticated woodcuts, this collection presents a voice that ranges from the colloquial to the impassioned, a brisk combination of lyric imagery and bawdy humor.
Apollinaire was an early and influential champion of Cubism, the friend of Braque, Picasso, Dufy, and Rousseau, and a seminal figure in the revolutionary art style known as “Surrealism,” a term that he coined. This a rare treat for lovers of French literature, art, and culture.
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Letters to Madeleine Tender as Memory
Letters to Madeleine collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to his fiancée Madeleine Pagès during World War I. Stationed in the trenches of Champagne, this man of letters who had been at the forefront of the surrealist movement was transformed overnight into an artilleryman.
The fascinating correspondence bears witness to the typical yet deeply idiosyncratic experience of Apollinaire at an especially crucial moment of his existence as man and artist. Apollinaire shares with Madeleine his thoughts on art and literature from Racine to Tolstoy, and at the same time he uniquely documents the daily life of a soldier at the front during the Great War. As well, the letters reveal intimate and little-known aspects of Apollinaire's personality--from his childhood and tastes to his grandest aesthetic ideas.
Writing about the letters in his biography of Apollinaire, Francis Steegmuller noted, "Nowhere, is there a more 'living picture' of a poet in a war . . . or, outside of Stendhal, a more vivid picture of war itself." Letters to Madeleine is a moving portrait of a poet facing one of humanity's starkest realities, and it will be of interest to not only fans of Apollinaire but those interested in personal accounts of World War I as well.
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Zone: Selected Poems (NYRB Poets)
Zone is the fruit of poet-translator Ron Padgett’s fifty-year engagement with the work of France’s greatest modern poet. This bilingual edition of Apollinaire’s poetry represents the full range of his achievement from traditional lyric verse to the pathbreaking visual poems he called calligrams, from often-anthologized classics to hitherto-untranslated gems, from poems of cosmic breadth to a poem about his shoes. Including an introduction by the distinguished scholar Peter Read, helpful endnotes, a preface, and an annotated bibliography by Padgett, this new edition of Apollinaire stands out not only for its compact and judicious selection of the essential poems but also as the work of an important American poet. The Washington Post has said, “No praise can be too high for Ron Padgett’s translations.”
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Selected Writings (New Directions Books)
A bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, with a comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, Roger Shattuck. When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led the migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre to Montparnasse; he had helped formulate the principles of Cubism, having written one of the first books on the subject, and coined the word "Surrealist"; and he had demonstrated in his own work those innovations we have come to associate with the most vital investigations of the avant-garde. This bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, begins with a comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, Roger Shattuck. The next section is devoted to poetry. Included here are almost half of Apollinaire’s two best-known volumes, Alcools and Calligrammes, as well as a selection from five other books, and the long love poem La Chanson du Mal-Aimé in its entirety. The prose section leads off with "L’Esprit Nouveau et les Poetes", a seminal discussion of modern poetry that anticipates such movements as Dada and Futurism. This is followed by Apollinaire’s almost unobtainable "Introduction to Baudelaire and Oneirocriticism", an early experimental work composed in a style prophetic of Surrealist automatic writing. There are, in addition, two stories, a passage from Anecdotiques, and a section from the novel Le Poete Assassiné.
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Calligrammes
Sept mois avant sa mort, Apollinaire publie des poèmes "de la paix et de la guerre", écrits de 1913 à 1916, sous le titre Calligrammes. Ce néologisme, qu'il forge à partir des mots "calligraphie" et "idéogramme", annonce un mode d'expression original : le poème-dessin, qui allie jeu du langage et jeu des formes. Les mots dessinent ici un cigare, là une montre ou une colombe, et traversent la page sous forme de gouttes de pluie ou de trains partant pour les champs de bataille de la Première Guerre mondiale... Car Apollinaire a en partie composé ses Calligrammes au front, pour ses correspondantes aimées, Lou et Madeleine. S'il a pu se nourrir du spectacle de la guerre, c'était pour mieux la transfigurer. Et c'est aussi pour continuer de croire en l'avenir qu'il a osé, sous le fracas des bombes, cette étonnante synthèse de plusieurs arts.Dossier : 1. Une conférence d'Apollinaire : "L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes"2. Les poètes et la Grande Guerre3. Autour du calligramme4. Poètes contemporains d'Apollinaire5. Le jugement d'André Breton.
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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.
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Alcools: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
A new translation of this complex and beautiful poetry.
Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetry, provides a key to the century's history and consciousness. Champion of "cubism", Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) fashions in verse the sonic equivalent of what Picasso accomplishes in his cubist works: simultaneity. Apollinaire has been so influential that without him there would have been no New York School of poetry and no Beat Movement. This new translation reveals his complex, beautiful, and wholly contemporary poetry. Printed with the original French on facing pages, this is the only version of this seminal work of French Modernism currently available in the United States.
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The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.
Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. 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. 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. This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaire's crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde. The volume includes a short translator's preface.
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Birds, Beasts and a World Made New Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov (1908-22)
by Guillaume Apollinaire, Velimir Khlebnikov
“Wonderful . . . and full of life. This is a book for discovery, for pleasure and delight.” – George Szirtes, author of The Photographer at Sixteen
A revelatory volume of 2 of the 20th century’s great poetic innovators, Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, in vibrant new translations by Robert Chandler
Offering a fresh angle on two of the most innovative poets of the 20th century, and grouping poems by theme, celebrated translator and poet Robert Chandler finds surprising connections between Apollinaire and Khlebnikov, from their interest in animal poems and bestiaries to their distinctive approaches to war poetry.
Although Apollinaire and Khlebnikov never met, their restless innovations in poetic form shared much in common. Both pushed poetry to its limit, and their experiments proved fertile for generations of poets to come. Khlebnikov became associated with Futurism, though his inventiveness with language moved him far beyond it, while Apollinaire influenced a dizzying array of avant-garde movements, including Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism.
Chandler offers a stimulating selection from both poets’ work in beautifully vivid new translations. Showcasing these poets’ exhilarating capacity for innovation as well as their more direct, heartfelt verse, this work offers a surprising journey into the world of two great Modernist poets.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world’s greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.
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