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Alcools
Sign in to saveAlcools (English: Alcohols) is a collection of poems by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. His first major collection, it was published in 1913.
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- Author
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- First published
- 1920
- Editions
- 53
- Subjects
- Classic Literature, Collections, English poetry, Fiction, French poetry, Poetry, Translations from French, Translations into English
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Preparation and publication
- Themes and style
- Controversy
- Reception
- The poems of the collection, in alphabetic order
- Posterity
- References
- External links
Alcools (English: Alcohols) is a collection of poems by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. His first major collection, it was published in 1913.
The first poem in the collection, Zone (an epic poem of Paris), has been called "the great poem of early Modernism" by the scholar Martin Sorrell.
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