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Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913–1916)


by Guillaume Apollinaire

To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.

To the left, caricatures of a fallen King Albert of Belgium, Tsar Nicholas of Russia, President Poincare of France, generic (?) caricatures of an English man and a Japanese soldier, Kings Peter of Serbia, and Nikola of Montenegro engaging in a tug of war, the rope being held on the right by a German (in gray) and an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Between the teams and behind the rope stands the diminutive caped figure of King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, all hat, mustache, and chin.

Calligrames: Poems of Peace and War (1913–1916) by Guillaume Apollinaire, a Bilingual Edition; with an Introduction by S. I. Lockerbie and Commentary by Anne Hyde Greet and Anne Hyde Greet; Translated by Anne Hyde Greet

Publisher: University of California Press, 2004

Copyright: 1980 by the Regents of the University of California