Pathological as it seems, we tend to express reverence for our favorite writers by reshaping their work into something more like what they should have done. Most of us manage this simply by reading ...
This satisfyingly fat collection has some definite virtues in tracking the poetic output of Hugo (1802–1885), France's monumental 19th-century scribe: it is organized chronologically, with prefaces ...
WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRENCH POET of the nineteenth century? André Gide’s immortal comment—”Victor Hugo, alas!”—is as true today as it was when Gide wrote it in a letter to Paul Valéry almost a century ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
June Nights In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers Pours out far away an intoxicating scent; Eyes shut, ears half open to noises, We only half sleep in a transparent slumber. The ...
Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...
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