Guillaume Apollinaire





Guillaume Apollinaire

Author profile


born
in Rome, Italy
August 26, 1880

died
November 09, 1918

gender
male

website

genre


About this author

Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire (in French pronounced [ɡijom apɔliˈnɛʁ]) was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother.

Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947).


Average rating: 3.99 · 2,808 ratings · 138 reviews · 137 distinct works · Similar authors
Alcools
by
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 1913 — 31 editions
Selected Writings
by
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1971
Calligrammes: Poems of Peac...
by
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1918 — 10 editions
Les Onze Milles Verges
by
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1907 — 32 editions
The Poet Assassinated
by
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1972 — 12 editions
Bestiary: Or the Parade of ...
by
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1911 — 9 editions
Les Exploits d'un jeune don...
3.04 of 5 stars 3.04 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1911 — 21 editions
The Self-Dismembered Man: S...
by
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
The Heresiarch and Co.
by
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1910 — 13 editions
Selected Poems of Apollinaire
by
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings5 editions
More books by Guillaume Apollinaire…
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire

“Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.”
Guillaume Apollinaire

“Joy came always after pain.”
Guillaume Apollinaire