TY - JOUR AU - NOSZLOPY, GEORGE T. AB - APOLLINAIRE, ALLEGORICAL IMAGERY AND THE VISUAL ARTS Car U y a tant de choses que je n'ose vents dire Tant de choses que vous ne me laisseriez pas dire ("La Jolie Rousse") By becoming an art oritio Apollinaire was continuing a French literary tradition of more than one and a half centuries. What originated with Diderot's Salons in the middle of the eighteenth century, with Baudelaire's dictum that " tous les grands poetes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques " became a sine qua non for any self-assertive ambitious young man with great poetio aspirations.1 Yet for Apollinaire the role of the oritio was more than an aesthetio attitude and an absorbing literary genre Whilst from the beginning it was inseparable from his lyric poetry and literary prose, it eventually became the gravitational force of his own uni- verse of which he himself waB the centre. Art critioism for him, therefore, was the recording of what he and his contemporaries thought to be a new revival in literature and in the arts, and partly a means by which the philo- sophical and artistic theories underlying this revival could be spread and clarified. As for Apollinaire, there was little doubt that in TI - Apollinaire, Allegorical Imagery and the Visual Arts JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies DO - 10.1093/fmls/IX.1.49 DA - 1973-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/apollinaire-allegorical-imagery-and-the-visual-arts-VRF5AjDzJ0 SP - 49 EP - 74 VL - IX IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -