Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) is one of the most significant names in the history of European literature. Having completed the classical period of French poetry, he opened the horizons of the “new lyrical consciousness.” His poetic “Bestiary” (1911), books “Alcohols” (1913) and “Calligrams” (1918) largely determined the path of further development and existence of poetry. The three-volume Collected Works of Apollinaire, published in Russia for the first time, brings to the reader brilliant examples of his lyrics. The first volume of the Collected Works includes the author’s poetic collections, the parable “The Rotting Sorcerer” (1909), and the Apollinaire Theater is represented by his famous play “The Breasts of Tiresias” (1917), in the preface to which the word “surrealism” first appeared, picked up by the poet’s closest followers.