The Poet Assassinated

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The Poet Assassinated is by Guillaume Apollinaire, and the title page says it is translated from the French with a biographical notice and notes by Matthew Josephson. The contents list gives chapter titles such as Renown, Procreation and Gestation, among others. The text names Alcools as a first collection of poems that appeared in 1913. The text says that in the summer of 1914 Apollinaire was in Deauville, surrounded by a cosmopolitan horde of Poles, Germans, Hungarians, Czechs and Russians when the Great War began.

The text says M. Layol is an excellent comedian and that Mlle Jeannine Letrou, a young star of tomorrow, has very pretty legs. A section headed THE THEATRE offers some subjects for plays, and one of them has the prince of San Meco finding a louse on his wife's head and making a scene. A chapter headed APOTHEOSIS says that, Croniamantal dead, Paponat brought Tristouse Ballerinette back to the hotel, where she relapsed into nervous fainting-spells.

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire helped reshape French poetry at the threshold of modernism, bringing city streets, memory, travel, visual art, and fractured love into an adventurous lyrical voice. Alcools, issued by Mercure de France in 1913, gathers poems written largely between 1898 and 1912.

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Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Pages: 59
Language: English
Genre: Satire
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