Works
- A Calligramme by Guillaume Apollinaire[4]
- Apollinaire's grave in Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Poem by Apollinaire on a wall in Leiden
Poetry
- L'enchanteur pourrissant (1909). The Enchanter Rotting
- Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (1911)
- Alcools (1913)
- Vitam impendere amori (1917)
- Calligrammes, poèmes de la paix et de la guerre 1913–1916 (1918) (published shortly after Apollinaire's death)
- Il y a... (1925) Albert Messein
- Julie ou la rose (1927)
- Ombre de mon amour (1947). Poems addressed to Louise de Coligny-Châtillon
- Poèmes secrets à Madeleine (1949). Pirated edition
- Le Guetteur mélancolique (1952). Previously unpublished works
- Poèmes à Lou (1955)
- Soldes (1985). Previously unpublished works
- Et moi aussi je suis peintre (2006). Album of drawings for Calligrammes, from a private collection
Novels
- Mirely ou le Petit Trou pas cher (1900). Mirely, or The Cheap Little Hole (unpublished)
- Que faire ? (1900). What to Do?
- Les Onze Mille Verges ou les Amours d'un hospodar (1907). The Eleven Thousand Rods; The Debauched Hospodar
- Les Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1911). The Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell, trans. Reaves Tessor (1959)
- La Rome des Borgia (1914). The Rome of the Borgias
- La Fin de Babylone (1914). The Fall of Babylon
- Les Trois Don Juan (1915). The Three Don Juans
- La Femme assise (1920). The Sitting Woman
Short story collections
- L'Hérèsiarque et Cie (1910). The Heresiarch and Co., trans. Rémy Inglis Hall (1965)[5]
- Le Poète assassiné (1916). The Poet Assassinated, trans. Matthew Josephson (1923, title story);[6] trans. Ron Padgett (1968, unabridged)[7]
- Les Épingles (1928). The Pins
Plays
- Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917). The Breasts of Tiresias
- La Bréhatine (1917). Screenplay (collaboration with André Billy)
- Couleurs du temps (1918)
- Casanova (published 1952)
Articles
- Le Théâtre italien, illustrated encyclopedia, 1910
- Preface, Catalogue of 8th Salon annuel du Cercle d'art Les Indépendants, Musée moderne de Bruxelles, 10 June – 3 July 1911.
- La Vie anecdotique, Chroniques dans Le Mercure de France, 1911–1918
- Pages d'histoire, chronique des grands siècles de France, chronicles, 1912
- Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques, 1913
- La Peinture moderne, 1913
- L'Antitradition futuriste, manifeste synthèse, 1913
- Jean Metzinger à la Galerie Weill, Chroniques d'art de Guillaume Apollinaire, L'Intransigeant, Paris Journal, 27 May 1914
- Case d'Armons, 1915
- L'esprit nouveau et les poètes, 1918
- Le Flâneur des Deux Rives, chronicles, 1918
Translations into English
- The Poet Assassinated, trans. Matthew Josephson (The Broom Publishing, 1923)
- Selected Writings, trans. Roger Shattuck (New Directions, 1948)
- Alcools: Poems 1898–1913, trans. Walter Meredith (Doubleday, 1964)
- Alcools, trans. Anne Hyde Greet (University of California Press, 1965)
- Selected Poems, trans. Oliver Bernard (Penguin, 1965; expanded, bilingual edition, Anvil Press, 1986)
- The Heresiarch and Co., trans. Rémy Inglis Hall (1965), published in the UK as The Wandering Jew and Other Stories (1967)[8]
- The Poet Assassinated, trans. Ron Padgett (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968)
- Calligrams, trans. Anne Hyde Greet (Unicorn Press, 1970)[9]
- Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews, 1902-1918, trans. Susan Suleiman (1972)
- Zone, trans. Samuel Beckett (Dolmen Press, 1972)
- Alcools: Poems, trans. Donald Revell (Wesleyan University Press, 1995)
- The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems, trans. Donald Revell (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
- The Little Auto, trans. Beverley Bie Brahic (CB editions, 2012)
- "Zone", trans. David Lehman, in Virginia Quarterly Review (2013)[10]
- Zone: Selected Poems, trans. Ron Padgett (New York Review Books, 2015)
- Selected Poems, trans. Martin Sorrell (Oxford University Press, 2015)
In popular culture
- French composer Francis Poulenc has set Apollinaire's poems to music in his five-part song cycle Banalités (1940), which in turned inspired Pink Martini's song Sympathique (je ne veux pas travailler) in 1997.
- Dutch composer Marjo Tal set some of Apollinaire’s poetry to music.[11]
- French composer Denise Roger set Apollinaire’s poetry to music.[12]
- Apollinaire is played by Seth Gabel in the 2018 television series Genius, which focuses on the life and work of Pablo Picasso.
Notes
- ↑ His full birth name in Polish is Wilhelm-Albert-Włodzimierz-Aleksander-Apolinary Kostrowicki (Belarusian: Гіём-Альберт-Уладзімір-Аляксандр-Апалінарый Кастравіцкі) of the Wąż coat of arms.
References and sources
- References
- ↑ Robbins, Daniel (1964). Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953 : a retrospective exhibition. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. [New York : Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation].
- ↑ Judge, Harry George; Toyne, Anthony, eds. (1985–1993). Oxford illustrated encyclopedia. Oxford University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-19-869129-7. OCLC 11814265.
- ↑ Catherine Moore, Mark Moore, Guillaume Apollinaire official website, Biographie: Chronologie, Western Illinois University
- ↑ Action: Cahiers Individualistes De Philosophie Et D’art, October 1920, Blue Mountain Project, Princeton University
- ↑ Apollinaire, Guillaume (1965). The Heresiarch and Co. Internet Archive. Garden City, New York, Doubleday.
- ↑ Apollinaire, Guillaume (1923). The poet assassinated / y Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated from the French with a biographical notice and notes by Matthew Josephson. Getty Research Institute. New York : Broom Pub.
- ↑ Apollinaire, Guillaume (1985). The poet assassinated : and other stories. Internet Archive. Manchester : Carcanet. ISBN 978-0-85635-548-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ Apollinaire, Guillaume (1967). The Wandering Jew, and other stories;. Internet Archive. London, Hart-Davis.
- ↑ Apollinaire, Guillaume (1980). Calligrammes : poems of peace and war (1913–1916). Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-01968-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ Lehman, David (Spring 2013). "Apollinaire's "Zone"". Virginia Quarterly Review.
- ↑ trilobiet, acdhirr for. "Marjo Tal". www.forbiddenmusicregained.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
- ↑ "Denise Isabelle Roger Song Texts | LiederNet". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- Sources
- Apollinaire, Marcel Adéma, 1954
- Apollinaire, Poet among the Painters, Francis Steegmuller, 1963, 1971, 1973
- Apollinaire, M. Davies, 1964
- Guillaume Apollinaire, S. Bates, 1967
- Guillaume Apollinaire, P. Adéma, 1968
- The Banquet Years, Roger Shattuck, 1968
- Apollinaire, R. Couffignal, 1975
- Guillaume Apollinaire, L.C. Breuning, 1980
- Reading Apollinaire, T. Mathews, 1987
- Guillaume Apollinaire, J. Grimm, 1993
Other websites
- Works by Guillaume Apollinaire at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

- Reading Apollinaire’s ‘Vendémiaire’, Cordite Poetry Review 2014
- "Official" site hosted by Western Illinois University
- Becker, Annette: Apollinaire, Guillaume, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
- Audio recordings of Apollinaire reading his poems "Le Pont Mirabeau", "Marie" and "Le Voyageur"
- English verse translation of Le Pont Mirabeau
- Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan on IMDb
- Guillaume Apollinaire (poems in French and English)
- Les onze mille verges an e-book (in French)
- A digital rendition of Apollinaire's best known poem, "Il Pleut"