Guillaume Apollinaire
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary de Wąż-Kostrowicki
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Emerging from a multilingual upbringing-born in Rome to a Polish-Lithuanian mother and later adopting French citizenship-he entered Paris’s avant-garde circles at the turn of the century, where his literary formation intertwined with the city’s artistic ferment. Renowned for pioneering modern poetry, he abandoned punctuation to achieve a new immediacy, coined “Cubism” (1911), “Orphism” (1912) and…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources