Author

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Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet
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1880
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1918
genre: blank verse
country of citizenship: Russian Empire, France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French, Italian, Walloon
educated at: Colegio Niño Jesús de Praga
occupation: poet, writer, playwright, art critic, diarist, storyteller, literary critic, drawer
award received: mort pour la France
Guillaume Apollinaire (French: [ɡijom apɔlinɛʁ]; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "Cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement, the term Orphism in 1912, and the term "Surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. He wrote poems without punctuation attempting to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
Influenced by Symbolist poetry in his youth, he was admired during his lifetime by the young poets who later formed the nucleus of the Surrealist group (Breton, Aragon, Soupault). He revealed very early on an originality that freed him from any school of influence and made him one of the precursors of the literary revolution of the first half of the 20th century. His art is not based on any theory, but on a simple principle: the act of creating must come from the imagination, from intuition, because it must be as close as possible to life, to nature, to the environment, and to the human being.
Apollinaire was also active as a journalist and art critic for Le Matin, L'Intransigeant, L'Esprit nouveau, Mercure de France, and Paris Journal. In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris, an artistic and literary magazine.
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was recognized as "Fallen for France" (Mort pour la France) because of his commitment during the war.
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Alcools
collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire published in 1913
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1913
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Poèmes à Lou
recueil de poèmes posthume de Guillaume Apollinaire, dédié à Louise de Coligny-Châtillon
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Les Onze Mille Verges
pornographic novel by Apollinaire, published in 1907
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1907
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Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan
book by Guillaume Apollinaire
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1911
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L’Enchanteur pourrissant
recueil de poésies de Guillaume Apollinaire
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The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations
Book of Guillaume Apollinaire
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1913