Exemplified by The Breasts of Tiresias, this movement had a name coined by Guillaume Apollinaire, and its manifesto was written by Andre Breton.
One work from this movement illustrates a point by referring to Saint-Pol-Roux's practice of placing a placard on his door reading "The Poet Works." A poet from this movement wrote "the curve of your eyes embraces my heart" in his collection Capital and Pain. This group had fun composing collaborative works by playing exquisite corpse and was encouraged by its leader to engage in "pure psychic automatism," or writing unconsciously. An early work from this movement is a play in which a mythological seeress becomes a man and the title objects turn into balloons and float away. Exemplified by The Breasts of Tiresias, this movement had a name coined by Guillaume Apollinaire, and its manifesto was written by Andre Breton. For 10 points, name this literary movement whose works relied on surprise and non sequitur, much like the paintings of Dali.
One work from this movement illustrates a point by referring to Saint-Pol-Roux's practice of placing a placard on his door reading "The Poet Works.
Surrealism