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When Were Calligram Invented?

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When Were Calligram Invented?

Invented by Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire
He wrote poems without punctuation attempting to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
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in 1918, a calligram is a poem whose verses are arranged to form a drawing related to the poem.

What is calligram literature?

A calligram is a poem in which the calligraphy, the formation of the letters or the font selected, represents an aspect of the poem's subject, as in: thin (written in a very thin font), ancient (looking crumbling and old) or growth (with each letter written in a progressively larger font size).

Where did the word calligram come from?

noun: A word, phrase, or piece of text arranged to form a picture of the subject described. ETYMOLOGY: From French calligramme, from Greek calli- (beautiful) + -gram (something written). Earliest documented use: 1923.

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