Selected PoetryTaylor & Francis, 2002 - 305 sider 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. |
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from Odes and Ballads | 3 |
from Orientalia | 5 |
from Autumn heaves | 21 |
from The Songs of Daybreak | 33 |
from Inner Voices | 39 |
from Sunbeams and Shadows | 45 |
from Punishments | 61 |
from Les Contemplations 1856 | 94 |
from LAnnée Terrible 1872 | 202 |
from LArt dêtre grandpère 1877 | 210 |
from La Légende des siècles 1859 1877 1883 | 214 |
from La Fin de Satan 1886 | 258 |
from Toute la Lyre 1888 | 260 |
Notes | 267 |
Index of Tides | 296 |
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