Kenneth Funsten, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Greet's English is an excellent guide to Apollinaire's French. A modern classic long overdue in this form."


Choice
"This impressive edition presenting the original French texts facing the English translations deserves high praise on numerous counts. The successful duplication in English of the complex typography of these word-drawings is in itself a feat. . . . The enduring value of this edition will derive from its completeness and the tools it offers the competent but inexpert reader of French for fuller understanding of Apollinaire's rich, but often abstruse vocabulary and imagery."


Picasso, the Cubists, Delauney (and of Apollinaire's personal vision can begin with this excellent book." (The Antioch Review
"Any study, any appreciation, not only of French poetry early in our century but of French painting


Book Description
Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice, Apollinaire was one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the Surrealists.


About the Author
Anne Hyde Greet is Professor of French, University of California, Santa Barbara; S. I. Lockerbie is Professor of French, University of Stirling, Scotland.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice, Apollinaire was one of the leading figures in twentieth-century poetry, a transitional figure whose work at once echoes the Symbolists and anticipates the Surrealists.