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    Poems by Victor Hugo
    Poems by Victor Hugo
    Poems by Victor Hugo
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    Poems by Victor Hugo

    Written by Victor Hugo

    Narrated by Katie Haigh

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    Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. We have selected for you 28 of his most well-known and powerful poems, mosty from the immortal Autumn Leaves and Contemplations.

    They are, in order:
    • Childhood
    • Death in Life
    • Epitaph
    • Have you nothing to say for yourself
    • How Butterflies are born
    • I am content; Inscription for a crucifix
    • Satire on the Earth
    • St John
    • The Dying Child to its Mother
    • The Poet's Simple Faith
    • The Vale to you, to me the Heights
    • Infantile Influence
    • Sunset
    • The Patience of the People
    • The Poet's Love for Liveliness
    • The Universal Prayer
    • The Watching Angel
    • Dictated before the Rhone Glacier
    • Tribute to the Vanquished
    Enjoy the intense rhythm and depth of Hugo's poetry, an essential part of French culture and one of the most beautiful works of poerty ever written.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAstorg Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9782821108271
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    Victor Hugo

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is one of the most well-regarded French writers of the nineteenth century. He was a poet, novelist and dramatist, and he is best remembered in English as the author of Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) (1831) and Les Misérables (1862). Hugo was born in Besançon, and became a pivotal figure of the Romantic movement in France, involved in both literature and politics. He founded the literary magazine Conservateur Littéraire in 1819, aged just seventeen, and turned his hand to writing political verse and drama after the accession to the throne of Louis-Philippe in 1830. His literary output was curtailed following the death of his daughter in 1843, but he began a new novel as an outlet for his grief. Completed many years later, this novel became Hugo's most notable work, Les Misérables.

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