The Poetry of Hugo (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Hugo
- First Published: 1822
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Poetry or poets, Romanticism
Critical Evaluation:
The name and the work of Victor Hugo fill the whole of the nineteenth century. Hugo the poet has been neglected, although few critics would deny that most modern French poetry has in one way or another been marked by him.
It matters little that one of Hugo’s first major collections, LES ORIENTALES, seems to have been inspired by his watching the sun set over Paris. Nineteenth century artists were often to turn to the Orient, observed or only imagined, for their inspiration. In France, certainly, where imaginations had been expanded by the...
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