Download or read book Selected Poems of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although best known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Misérables, Victor Hugo was primarily a poet—one of the most important and prolific in French history. Despite his renown, however, there are few comprehensive collections of his verse available and even fewer translated editions. Translators E. H. and A. M. Blackmore have collected Victor Hugo's essential verse into a single, bilingual volume that showcases all the facets of Hugo's oeuvre, including intimate love poems, satires against the political establishment, serene meditations, religious verse, and narrative poems illustrating his mastery of the art of storytelling and his abiding concern for the social issues of his time. More than half of this volume's eight thousand lines of verse appear here for the first time in English, providing readers with a new perspective on each of the fascinating periods of Hugo's career and aspects of his style. Introductions to each section guide the reader through the stages of Hugo's writing, while notes on individual poems provide information not found in even the most detailed French-language editions. Illustrated with Hugo's own paintings and drawings, this lucid translation—available on the eve of Hugo's bicentenary—pays homage to this towering figure of nineteenth-century literature by capturing the energy of his poetry, the drama and satirical force of his language, and the visionary beauty of his writing as a whole.
Download or read book Poems written by Victor Hugo and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the close of the First French Revolution, Joseph Leopold Sigisbert Hugo, son of a joiner at Nancy, and an officer risen from the ranks in the Republican army, married Sophie Trébuchet, daughter of a Nantes fitter-out of privateers, a Vendean royalist and devotee. Victor Marie Hugo, their second son, was born on the 26th of February, 1802, at Besançon, France. Though a weakling, he was carried, with his boy-brothers, in the train of their father through the south of France, in pursuit of Fra Diavolo, the Italian brigand, and finally into Spain. Colonel Hugo had become General, and there, besides being governor over three provinces, was Lord High Steward at King Joseph's court, where his eldest son Abel was installed as page. The other two were educated for similar posts among hostile young Spaniards under stern priestly tutors in the Nobles' College at Madrid, a palace become a monastery. Upon the English advance to free Spain of the invaders, the general and Abel remained at bay, whilst the mother and children hastened to Paris.
Download or read book Poems of Victor Hugo Translated Into English by Various Authors written by Victor Hugo and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 100 poems of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. Hugo is nest known for Les Miserables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Translations from the Poems of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Victor Hugo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work. Steven Monte presents more than eighty poems in translation and in the original French, taken from the earliest poetic publications of the 1820's, through collections published during exile, to works published in the years following Hugo's death in 1883. The introduction provides helpful background information about Hugo's life and work, the selection, and what is involved in translating a poet whose effortless rhymes are central to the poetry's power. Detailed notes at the back of the volume offer information about the poems and their publishing and historical contexts. This is an ideal introduction to a poet whose work, for all its renown, remains for Anglophone readers undiscovered.
Download or read book The poetry of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the use of schools and colleges.
Download or read book Poems of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Victor Hugo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generous, varied selection of poems by one of France's best-loved and most reviled poets is presented with facing originals, detailed notes, and a lively introduction to the author's life and work. Steven Monte presents more than eighty poems in translation and in the original French, taken from the earliest poetic publications of the 1820's, through collections published during exile, to works published in the years following Hugo's death in 1883. The introduction provides helpful background information about Hugo's life and work, the selection, and what is involved in translating a poet whose effortless rhymes are central to the poetry's power. Detailed notes at the back of the volume offer information about the poems and their publishing and historical contexts. This is an ideal introduction to a poet whose work, for all its renown, remains for Anglophone readers undiscovered.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems written by Victor Hugo and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Poems by Victor Hugo
Download or read book The Poems of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book COME WHEN I SLEEP written by Victor Hugo and published by LM Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor Hugo was a great poet, dramatist and romance-writer. The precocious eloquence and ardor of his early works made him famous before his time. That Victor Hugo was one of the greatest poets and writers ever born into the world, anyone of his works would amply suffice to prove. This book presents the story of the life of Victor Hugo and his interesting poems. "-After the Battle- MY sire, the hero with the smile so soft, And a big trooper, his companion oft, Whom he loved greatly for his courage high And strength and stature, as the night drew nigh Rode out together. The battle was done. The dead strewed the field. Long sunk was the sun. It seemed in the darkness a sound they heard, A feeble moan, or some half-uttered word. 'Twas a Spaniard from the army in flight Who had crawled to the road after the fight; Shattered and livid, and more than half-dead, Rattled his throat as quite faintly he said: - 'Water-water to drink, for pity's sake! Oh-a drop of water my thirst to slake!' And my father, moved at these words heart-wrung, The gourd of rum at his saddle that hung To the trooper handed, who sharp down sprung. 'Let him drink his fill, ' cried my father;-and ran The trooper to the sorely wounded man, A sort of Moor, swarthy, bloody, and grim. But soon as the trooper had bent o'er him He seized a pistol, turned fiercely about, And aimed at my father's head with a shout. The ball passed so near, that its whistling sound He heard, while his cap fell pierced to the ground, And his steed reared back with terror aghast- 'Give him the drink, ' cried my father, and past. (Victor Hugo)
Download or read book Victor Hugo and His Poetry written by William Henry Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgusting; republican, which is abominable; exiled, which is repulsive; defeated, which is infamous. To top it all off, a poet...' Victor Hugo dominated literary life in France for over half a century, pouring forth novels, poems, plays, and other writings with unflagging zest and vitality. Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of his work are represented within a single volume. Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Misérables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. All the chosen passages are self-contained and can be enjoyed without any previous knowledge of Hugo's work. Much of the material is appearing in English for the first time, and most of it has never before been annotated thoroughly in any language.
Download or read book The Poems of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Translations from the Poems of Victor Hugo written by Victor Hugo and published by London : W. Scott. This book was released on 1885 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
