Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes

<i>Reading Apollinaire's </i>Calligrammes examines Guillaume Apollinaire's second major collection of poetry. Composed between 1913 and 1918 the nineteen poems examined here fall into two main groups: the experimental poetry and the war poetry. They also provide glimpses of the poet's personal history from his affair with Louise de Coligny-Châtillon to his engagement to Madeleine Pagès and his marriage with Jacqueline Kolb.<br/><br/>Each section examines all of the previous scholarship for the work in question provides a detailed analysis and in many cases offers a new interpretation. Each poem is subjected to a meticulous line-by-line analysis in the light of current knowledge.