The poet who painted with his words - Geneviève Emy

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-one-french-poet-combined-poetry-and-visual-art-genevieve-emy Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare...

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Among the great poets of literary history,certain names like Homer,Shakespeare,Milton,and Whitman are instantly recognizable.However, there's an early 20th century great French poetwhose name you may not know:Guillaume Apollinaire.He was a close friend and collaborator of artists like Picasso,Rousseau,and Chagall.He coined the term surrealism,and he was even suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911.During his short lifetime,he created poetry that combined text and imagein a way that seemingly predicted an artistic revolution to come.In the late 19th and early 20th century Paris,the low-rent districts of Montmartre and Montparnassewere home to every kind of starving artist.It was all they could afford.These painters, writers, and intellectuals,united in th...