Selected Poems of Apollinaire
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, has worked as an advisory teacher of drama, and was a director of the Speak a Poem Competition from its inception. He has lived in Norfolk for over thirty years.
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Selected Poems of Apollinaire
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, has worked as an advisory teacher of drama, and was a director of the Speak a Poem Competition from its inception. He has lived in Norfolk for over thirty years.
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Selected Poems of Apollinaire

Selected Poems of Apollinaire

Selected Poems of Apollinaire

Selected Poems of Apollinaire

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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, has worked as an advisory teacher of drama, and was a director of the Speak a Poem Competition from its inception. He has lived in Norfolk for over thirty years.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780856463594
Publisher: Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date: 06/01/2004
Series: Poetica Series , #20
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The moving spirit of French modernism, Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880. He became a French citizen only in 1916, after service in the artillery and infantry. He died during the Paris flu epidemic of 1918. Born in 1925, Oliver Bernard has translated the poems of Arthur Rimbaud as well as Apollinaire. His own poems, titled Verse &c., were published by Anvil in 2001.

Table of Contents

Introduction13
Orpheus / Orphee19
Zone / Zone21
The Pont Mirabeau / Le Pont Mirabeau33
Tortoise / La tortue34
Horse / Le cheval35
The Song of the Ill-Loved / La Chanson du Mal-Aime37
'One night of London mist and flame' / Un soir de demi-brume a Londres37
Song for Laetare a Year Past / Aubade chantee a Laetare un an passe43
'Many of those gods are dead'/ 'Beaucoup de ces dieux ont peri'45
Reply of the Zapur-Og Cossacks / Reponse des Cosaques Zaporogues47
'O milky way' / 'Voie lactee'49
The Seven Swords / Les sept epees55
'O milky way' / 'Voie lactee'59
Autumn Crocuses / Les colchiques63
Annie / Annie65
Marizibill / Marizibill67
The Traveller / La voyageur69
The Door / La porte73
Tibetan Goat / La chevre du Thibet74
Hare / Le lievre75
The Circus People / Saltimbanques77
The Landor Road Emigrant / L'Emigrant de Landor Road79
Rosemonde / Rosemonde83
May / Mai85
Synagogue / La synagogue87
The Betrothal / Les fiancailles89
'The Spring invites unfaithful lovers to wander' / 'Le printemps laisse errer les fiances parjures'89
'My friends have at last admitted they despise me' / 'Mes amis m'ont enfin avoue leur mepris'89
'I no longer even have pity for myself' / 'Je n'ai plus meme pitie de moi'91
'I have summoned up the courage' / 'J'ai eu le courage'91
'Forgive me for my ignorance' / 'Pardonnez-moi mon ignorance'93
'I observe the Sunday rest' / 'J'observe le repos du dimanche'93
'In the end lies no longer frighten me' / 'A la fin les mensonges ne me font plus peur'95
'At the corner of a street' / 'Au tournant d'une rue'95
'O flaming Templars' / 'Templiers flamboyants'97
1909 / 190999
In the Sante / A la Sante101
Rabbit / Le lapin106
Dromedary / Le dromadaire107
Hunting Horns / Cors de chasse109
The Windows / Les fenetres111
Rue Christine Monday / Lundi rue Christine115
Heart, Crown and Mirror / Coeur couronne et miroir119
It's Raining / Il pleut121
The Little Car / La petite auto123
Gala / Fete127
Exercise / Exercice129
Postcard / Carte postale131
Mouse / La souris132
Carp / La carpe133
The Pretty Red-Head / La jolie rousse135
Cornflower / Bleuet139
The Skirt / Le jupon143
Prayer / Priere145
Hotel / Hotel147
Calligram for Madeleine (15 May 1915) / Calligramme a Madeleine (le 15 mai, 1915)149
The Ninth Secret Poem / Le neuvieme poeme secret151
Inscription for the Tomb of the Painter Henri Rousseau the Douanier / Inscription pour le tombeau du peintre Henri Rousseau Douanier153
Table / Table155
'Here is the coffin ...' / 'Voici le cerceuil ...'157
'Vive la France!' / 'Vive la France!'159
'Harden old heart ...' / 'Endurcis-toi vieux coeur ...'159
Letter to Andre Billy. 9 April 1915 / [Poeme epistolaire]161
Inscription on Apollinaire's Tombstone / Inscription qui se trouve sur le tombeau d'Apollinaire163
Notes165
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