Apollinaire, Guillaume
(1880–1918)
Apollinaire, GuillaumeApollinaire, GuillaumeGuillaume Apollinaire (B * ROME 1880 – D † PARIS 1918) Pseudonym of French poet Wilhelm Albert Wladimir Alexandre Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, illegitimate son of a Polish / Russian mother much enamored of gambling and a mysterious Italian father, he spent his youth in Italy and on the Riviera. His juvenile poems were signed »Guillaume le Macabre.« Perhaps the fact that he spoke both Italian and Polish, at least until age seven, added extra verve to…