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Portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire

_Guillaume Albert Vladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky, known as Guillaume Apollinaire, is a French poet and writer, critic and art theorist who was born a Polish subject of the Russian Empire on August 26, 1880 in Rome. He died in Paris on November 9, 1918 of the Spanish flu, but was declared dead for France due to his commitment during the war.

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List of works by Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire – A century of writers: 1880-1918 - video

Guillaume Apollinaire reads "Le pont Mirabeau" - video

Guillaume Apollinaire, the starry enchanter (1880-1918): A life, a work - France Culture - video

Poetic intoxication (3/4): Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire, the starry enchanter (1880-1918) (1/4) A poet on all fronts - France Culture

For this first part, a look back at the life of the poet, art critic, witness to an aesthetic revolution and precursor of the surrealist movement.

Guillaume Apollinaire, the starry enchanter (1880-1918) (2/4) Blood and flesh - France Culture

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) founded a "new spirit", developed a new form of writing and even offered erotic poetic stories, still relatively unknown, in a war context. From war to the pleasure of the flesh: second part of a week devoted to the poet.

Guillaume Apollinaire, the starry enchanter (1880-1918) (3/4) Poetic designs - France Culture

From prose to verse, Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) stretched all forms of writing in his poetic work, which enjoyed success at the start of the Great War, in 1914. What is the specificity of his poetry? Answer in this third part dedicated to the modern and surrealist poet.

Guillaume Apollinaire, the starry enchanter (1880-1918) (4/4) A poet among painters - France Culture

The last episode dedicated to Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) takes us to the Musée de l'Orangerie, on the occasion of the exhibition Apollinaire, the poet's gaze. A sound and visual wandering between poetry and painting, between prose and the arts, between a writer and artists.

Apollinaire and the painters

André Breton: "The man whose poetic genius eclipsed all others for me was Guillaume Apollinaire"

Guillaume Apollinaire resources — Mélusine site

Apollinaire - Internet Archive

Works available on Gallica


Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Guillaume Apollinaire, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.

Texts by Guillaume Apollinaire

  1. Couleur du temps, 1920-11-01

Notes by Guillaume Apollinaire

These texts by Guillaume Apollinaire may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.

  1. La Quatrième Journée, 1954-10-01, Textes
  2. Sur le Cubisme, 1962-12-01, Textes

Texts about Guillaume Apollinaire

These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, interviews conducted by the author, or works edited by the author.

  1. Vie de Guillaume Apollinaire, by André Salmon, 1920-11-01, articles
  2. Calligrammes, par Guillaume Apollinaire (Éditions de la N. R. F.), by Jean Cassou, 1925-10-01, Notes : la poésie
  3. Quelques admirateurs de Guillaume Apollinaire ont formé le projet..., by Anonymes, 1935-06-01, articles
  4. Poème à Lou, par Guillaume Apollinaire (Cailler), by Julien Lanoë, 1956-07-01, Notes : la poésie
  5. Apollinaire et l'École Française, by Roger Shattuck, 1956-09-01, Textes
  6. Ces quelques lettres d'Apollinaire à Louis de Gonzague Frick complètent..., by L.-C. Breunig, 1956-12-01, Textes

Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)

This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.


Bibliography of texts published in Les Cahiers de la Pleiade

The texts below, published in Les Cahiers de la Pleiade, are grouped into three sets: texts by Guillaume Apollinaire, texts translated by the author, and texts about the author.

Texts by Guillaume Apollinaire

  1. Poèmes (note de Robert Mallet), automne 1951-printemps 1952 [204 p.]