 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".Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for "Le Matin", "L'Intransigeant", "L'Esprit nouveau", "Mercure de France", and "Paris Journal".In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded "", an artistic and literary magazine.