Apollinaire

A·pol·li·naire

(ə-pŏl′ə-nâr′), Guillaume Originally Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky. 1880-1918.

Italian-born French poet and leading figure in avant-garde literary and artistic circles.

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Apollinaire

(French apɔlinɛr)

(Biography) Guillaume (ɡijom), real name Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki. 1880–1918, French poet, novelist, and dramatist, regarded as a precursor of surrealism; author of Alcoöls (1913) and Calligrammes (1918)

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A•pol•li•naire

(əˌpɒl əˈnɛər)

n.

Guil•laume (giˈyoʊm) (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky), 1880–1918, French poet.

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