Guillaume Apollinaire Signed Autograph Letter. Poetry, Art And Cubists

  

For many years, the autograph library has specialized in the sale of autograph letters and manuscripts. Signed autograph letter to laurent tailhade. Three pages 1⁄2 in-8° on letterhead from the Italian government hospital. "In addition to what, although assassinated as well as all poets, I am alive as well as all of them and I love life.

In convalescence of his trepanation suffered in May 1916, Apollinaire thanked Tailhade for his letter of congratulations regarding the publication of his collection of tales, the murdered poet. Apollinaire gives him his intimate vision of poetry and the arts, successively evoking his alcohol and heresiarch and cie collections, his cubist friends, his gaze on the ancients and moderns, and his joy of being a murdered poet, alive. What you wrote me about my book fits me right in court. There can be no vote today that is more precious than yours. And in our era of learning without culture you remind me of a holy calon.

[reference to calonne alphonse] keeping within a barbarism almost universal the legacy of good letters. My aesthetics would be, if you wish, to build on the solid basis of what has so far constituted taste, a bold monument for which the new materials are not lacking. On new thoughts let us make ancient verses". [reference to the famous verse of andré chenier] is that very, being modern. But trying to be worthy of what the elders did is, I believe, what shakespeare achieved.

I'll have you sent tomorrow by mercury the most beautiful pages of the arétin. I will go to stock to send you heresiarc and cie (my best book of prose, I believe); I am afraid that it will not be exhausted and that we will not withdraw during the war. Is exhausted and mercury will not reissue them during the war. Similarly for my writings on the new painting, figuary says it is exhausted. Besides, I would have wanted to do only poetry.

Sometimes it seems that rich people are happy if it is true that they are free. [sic] to do only what they like.

Besides, although murdered as well as all poets, I am alive as well as all of them and I love life. My relationship with the cubists was first and foremost friendship. Of course, I'm talking about those who have talent, but the public knows mostly those who don't. I tried to highlight the genius of the former and to express with some clarity the ideas that they sometimes distinguished themselves only very imperfectly.

In doing so I had no knowledge of many combinations where confreres even had a part. I've been resented, and I've been made to feel it with violence many times.

I am currently writing a novel that will be wonderful if I manage to lead it to the end. It's because I love my job, but I feel an infinite pain in getting into it. But nothing is sadder than the lives of poets and more joyful at the same time.

And it is with the most faithful admiration that I beg you, my dear master, to allow me to kiss you subsidiaryly. Consult our manuscripts The Autograph Gallery of Centuries specializes in the sale and expertise of autograph letters and manuscripts of the great personalities of past centuries. Purchase / payment methods we accept the following methods of payment: transfers and bank cheques. The prices shown are in euros and are net. We can also ship by private carrier at your request. Conditions of sale in accordance with the practice of the international league of the ancient bookstore, we accept a guarantee of return within 14 days. The return costs are borne by the buyer.

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