Selected Poems
Victor Hugo - Author
Brooks Haxton - Translator
ISBN 9780142437032 | 144 pages | 26 Feb 2002 | Penguin Classics | 5.19 x 7.75in | 18 - AND UP
Summary of Selected Poems
Summary of Selected Poems
Reviews for Selected Poems
An Excerpt from Selected Poems
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For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with passion about history, erotic experience, familial love, philosophy, nature, social justice, art, and mysticism.
In this new bicentennial edition, acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton offers an exquisite selection of Hugo's finest work: love poems, historical tableaux, elegy, and idyll, including his incomparable "Boaz Asleep," which Marcel Proust praised as the most beautiful poem of the nineteenth century. A Note on the Translation
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