Les Misérables | Literary Precedents
As a child, Hugo often wrote poetry, claiming that he wanted to be the next Chateaubriand, a French writer considered to be a precursor of the Romantics. Eventually, Hugo became one of the leading Romantic writers of France. His other major works include the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, published in 1831, and the poetry collection Contemplations, released in 1856, which he wrote at about the same time as Les Miserables. Some critics consider the latter, written after the drowning death of Hugo's daughter, his best poetry.
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