Calligrammes
{{Short description|1918 poetry collection by Guillaume Apollinaire}}
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File:Guillaume Apollinaire Calligramme.JPG from 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".Apollinaire, Guillaume, quoted in the preface by Michel Butor. Calligrammes, p. 7 (Éditions Gallimard, preface copyright 1966).
Gallery
File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - Cheval.png|Cheval
File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - La Colombe poignardée et le Jet d’eau.png|La Colombe poignardée et le Jet d’eau
File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - Cœur, couronne et miroir.png|Cœur, couronne et miroir
File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - L'oiseau et le bouquet.png|L'oiseau et le bouquet
File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - La Mandoline, l’œillet et le bambou.png|La Mandoline, l’œillet et le bambou
File:Guillaume Apollinaire Voyage.jpg|Voyage
File:Guillaume Apollinaire - Calligramme - Venu de Dieuze.png|Venu de Dieuze
File:Ilpleut.png|Il pleut
File:Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligramme.jpg|A calligram from Calligrammes[http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/cgi-bin/bluemtn?a=d&d=bmtnaab192010-01.2.25.4&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN-kisling----# Action: Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, October 1920], Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University
File:Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligram.jpg|A calligram from Calligrammes
Notes
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References
- Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes. Preface by Michel Butor. (Éditions Gallimard, 1995) {{ISBN|2-07-030008-0}}
== External links ==
- [https://archive.org/details/calligrammespo00apol Calligrammes; poèmes de la paix et da la guerre, 1913–1916] digitized original at the Internet Archive
- [https://wikilivres.org/wiki/Calligrammes Calligrammes]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (full text)
- [https://www.oswaldogonzalez.net/en/calligrammes/ Calligrammes, for piano trio]
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