| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Ragan Military Collection copy is inscribed by Gillaume Apollinaire
APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (contributes). La Poésie Symboliste - Trois Entretiens sur les Temps Héroïques (Période Symboliste) au Salon des Artistes Indépendants (1908). L'Édition, Paris. 1909. First edition. Octavo. 252 pages. Wrappers. On the 4th, 11th and 25th April 1908 the Salon des Artistes Indépendants hosted recitals of symbolist poetry, each of which was introduced by a different poet and was called, in homage to Mallarmé, L'Après-Midi des Poètes. This is the transcription of the introductory texts with the poems recited (the names of the reciters are given). The first section, introduced by P.N. Roinard, is devoted to Nos Maîtres les Morts. The second, by V.-E. Michelet is entitled Les Survivants. Apollinaire introduces the final section, La Phalange Nouvelle. Poems by Roinard, Michelet and Apollinaire feature in the recitals; in fact, the first two poems recited, in the introduction to the first section, are by Apollinaire: Salomé and Fragment. Presentation copy from Apollinaire, inscribed on the half-title: ''A Eugène Montfort - son admirateur et son ami Guillaume Apollinaire''. The presentee was editor of the literary periodical Marges, to which Apollinaire himself was a contributor. Presentation copies of works by Apollinaire are scarce, to say the least. Pages faintly tanned at the edges. Spine creased, darkened and splitting. Covers slightly creased. Good. |
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