Selected Poems
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20th Century
A01=Guillaume Apollinaire
Author_Guillaume Apollinaire
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French
Translation
War writings
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- ISBN 9780856463594
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Apollinaire’s poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet and the champion of the Cubist painters, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his calligrammes. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh and memorable.
Guillaume Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880. Educated in Monaco and Nice, he became a French citizen only in 1916, after service in the artillery and infantry. He was badly wounded in the head in 1916, and died during the Paris flu epidemic in 1918. As prose writer and art critic as well as poet, Apollinaire was the moving spirit of French modernism.
Oliver Bernard, born in 1925, worked as an advisory teacher of drama, and was a director of the Speak a Poem Competition since its inception. He was a fine reader and in 2012 produced a second CD of his readings, Rimbaud, Whitman Etc. This also includedhis own sequence ‘Moons and Tides’ and his stage-performance version of A Season in Hell.
Oliver Bernard lived in Norfolk for over forty years. A volume of autobiography, Getting Over It, was published by Peter Owen in 1992. Anvil published his translations of Apollinaire and Rimbaud (both of which started life as Penguins) and his collection of poems Verse etc. He died aged 87 on 1 June 2013.
