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Feb 2025
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Alcools, by Guillaume Apollinaire. Parti...

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Apollinaire is a pivotal figure in the history of French poetry. Friend of Picasso, albeit a sometimes volatile one, inventor of the term 'surrealism' and the poem without punctuation, he advocated a poetry that was direct and intuitive, free of any refined intellectualism.

Alcools, published in 1913, represents his most significant collection of poems.

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