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Guillaume Apollinaire
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Also Known As Guillelmus Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki • Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki
Born August 26, 1880 • near Rome • Italy
Died November 9, 1918 (aged 38) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Alcools” • “Calligrammes” • “L’Enchanteur pourrissant” • “The Poet Assassinated”
Movement / Style Surrealism • The Beehive
Subjects Of Study Cubism

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Pierre Reverdy
French poet
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia
French artist
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Pablo Picasso: Max Jacob
Max Jacob
French poet
Tchicaya U Tam’si
Congolese poet
Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French author
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan author
Claudel
Paul Claudel
French author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot
Paul Scarron
French author
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
Jean Moréas.
Jean Moréas
French poet
Jehan Bodel
French writer
Jean de La Taille
French author

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
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