Calligrammes
Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War 1913–1916, is a collection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire which was first published in 1918. Calligrammes is noted for how the typeface and spatial arrangement of the words on a page plays just as much of a role in the meaning of each poem as the words themselves – a form called a calligram. In this sense, the collection can be seen as either concrete poetry or visual poetry.
Apollinaire described his work as "an idealisation of free verse poetry and typographical precision in an era when typography is reaching a brilliant end to its career, at the dawn of the new means of reproduction that are the cinema and the phonograph".[1]
Gallery
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Cheval
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La Colombe poignardée et le Jet d’eau
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Cœur, couronne et miroir
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L'oiseau et le bouquet
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La Mandoline, l’œillet et le bambou
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Voyage
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Venu de Dieuze
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Il pleut
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A calligram from Calligrammes[2]
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A calligram from Calligrammes
![A calligram from Calligrammes[2]](/index.php/File:Guillaume_Apollinaire,_Calligramme.jpg){kind=link}
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Apollinaire, Guillaume, quoted in the preface by Michel Butor. Calligrammes, p. 7 (Éditions Gallimard, preface copyright 1966).
- ^ Action: Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, October 1920, Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University
References
[edit | edit source]- Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes. Preface by Michel Butor. (Éditions Gallimard, 1995) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Calligrammes; poèmes de la paix et da la guerre, 1913–1916 digitized original at the Internet Archive
- Calligrammes[dead link] (full text)
- Calligrammes, for piano trio
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