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Article: Contemplating Apollinaire's Bestiaire.(Guillaume Apollinaire; Le Bestiaire ou cortege d'Orphe)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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In 1911 Guillaume Apollinaire published a collection of poems entitled Le Bestiaire ou cortege d'Orphe, (1) which, as Anne Hyde Greet and others have shown, was modelled on earlier collections of animal fables and myths. (2) Faithful to the principles governing this venerable genre, each text was accompanied by an illustration--a woodcut by Raoul Dufy. Consisting of thirty poems followed by a series of explanatory notes, the book was a stunning accomplishment. Greet calls it 'peut-etre la plus belle edition publiee en France au X[X.sup.e] siecle' (p. 151). The slim volume is not only a remarkable verbal achievement but a visual tour de force. Translated and reprinted ...
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... ... Swaggering through the muddy trenches of love- Lessness just to hunt down a bloody scent In the open heart of Guillaume Apollinaire A count without money a real no account Wandering aimlessly through the Paris streets From dawn until dusk lusting ...
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