Dec 29, 2009
Guillaume Apollinaire’s major importance as a writer lies in his poetry and his art criticism. He was part of a new age of experimentation in free verse and was closely involved both creatively and socially with the major figures in the Parisian avant-garde from 1905 to 1918. His literary career began in earnest in 1903 with a poem dedicated to a lost love and continued through the publication in 1910 of L’Hérésiarque et Cie. (The Heresiarch and Co., 1965), a collection of twenty-three fantastical and haunting stories that have often...
[The entire page is 3208 words long]
©2000-2009
Enotes.com Inc.
All Rights Reserved