''Alcools'' (English: Alcohols) is a collection of poems by the French author
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of t ...
. His first major collection 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
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" by the scholar Martin Sorrell.
The poems of the collection, in alphabetic order
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* Automne malade
* Automne
* Annie
* Chantre
* Clair de lune
* Clotilde
* Cors de chasse
* Cortège
* Crépuscule
* Hôtels
* L'Adieu
* L'Émigrant de Landor Road
* L'Ermite
* La Blanche Neige
* La Chanson du Mal Aimé
* La Dame
* La
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* La Maison des morts
* La Porte
* La Synagogue
* La Tzigane
* Le Brasier
* Le Larron
* Le
Pont Mirabeau
* Le Vent nocturne
* Le Voyageur
* Les Cloches
* Les Colchiques
* Les Femmes
* Les Fiançailles
* Les Sapins
* Lul de Faltenin
* Mai
* Marie
* Marizibill
* Merlin
* Merlin et la Vieille Femme
* Nuit rhénane
* Palais
* Poème lu au mariage d'André Salmon
* Rhénane d'automne
* Rosemonde
* Salomé
* Saltimbanques
*
Schinderhannes
* Signe
* Un soir
* Vendémiaire
* Zone (voir : Pihis)
See also
*''Le Monde'' 100 Books of the Century
External links
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Alcools'' (English translation by A. S. Kline)
Works by Guillaume Apollinaire
1913 poems
French poetry
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