Peter Read, Professor of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts in the Department of Modern Languages, has just published a new book: Apollinaire: Lettres calligrammes manuscrits (Éditions Textuel, 2016).
The book this large-format, illustrated, hard-back book is co-published in November 2016 by the Bibliothèque nationale de France [French National Library] and features colour facsimiles of over 100 manuscripts, including previously unpublished works, from private collections and public archives, covering the whole creative trajectory of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918). The manuscripts have been selected, transcribed and presented, with introductions and commentaries.
Apollinaire was an important war poet and this publication has been financially supported by the French government’s 1914-1918 commemorative committee [Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale].
For more details about the book, please see the publisher’s page here: www.editionstextuel.com/index.php?cat=020201&id=661&c=&count=20