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Apollinaire's first collection of poetry was L'enchanteur pourrissant (1909), but Alcools (1913) established his reputation. The poems, influenced in part by the Symbolists, juxtapose the old and the new, combining traditional poetic forms with modern imagery.
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913-1916, is a collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire which was first published in 1918. Calligrammes is noted for how the typeface and spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves – a form called a calligram.
Apollinaire’s first collection of poetry, L’enchanteur pourrissant, was published in 1909, and his reputation as a poet was established in 1913 with the publication of the collection Alcools: Poèmes.
Calligrammes, collection of poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, published in French in 1918. The poems in the collection reflect Apollinaire’s experiences as a soldier during World War I as well as his association with the Parisian art world.
- Guillaume Apollinaire, Anne Hyde Greet, S. I Lockerbie
- 1918
Apollinaire's earliest publications, the short story collections L'enchanteur pourrissant and L'heresiarque et cie ( The Heresiarch and Co. ), prefigure his subsequent work in their extravagant use of the imagination.
Guillaume Apollinaire was a poet who in his short life took part in all the avant-garde movements that flourished in French literary and artistic circles at the beginning of the 20th century and who helped to direct poetry into unexplored channels. The son of a Polish émigrée and an Italian.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Alcools (English: Alcohols) is a collection of poems by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. His first major collection was published in 1913. The first poem in the collection, Zone (an epic poem of Paris), has been called " the great poem of early Modernism " by the scholar Martin Sorrell.
