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Guillaume Apollinaire

French poet
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Also known as: Guillelmus Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki, Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki
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Pseudonym of:
Guillelmus (or Wilhelm) Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki
Born:
August 26, 1880, Rome?, Italy
Died:
November 9, 1918, Paris, France (aged 38)
Notable Works:
“Alcools”
“Calligrammes”
“L’Enchanteur pourrissant”
“The Poet Assassinated”
Movement / Style:
Surrealism
The Beehive
Subjects Of Study:
Cubism
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Guillaume Apollinaire (born August 26, 1880, Rome?, Italy—died November 9, 1918, Paris, France) 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 officer, he kept his origins secret. Left more or less to himself, he went at the age of 20 to Paris, where he led a bohemian life. Several months spent in Germany in 1901 had a profound effect on ...(100 of 501 words)

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