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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
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- Anton Delvig (1798–1831; Russian)
- Amable Tastu (1798–1885; French)
- Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855; Polish)
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837; Russian)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885; French)
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838; English)
- Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839; Russian)
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Victor Hugo (1802–1885; French)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Anton Delvig (1798–1831; Russian)
- Amable Tastu (1798–1885; French)
- Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855; Polish)
- Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837; Russian)
- Victor Hugo (1802–1885; French)
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838; English)
- Alexander Odoevsky (1802–1839; Russian)
- Part
- Part
- Part
Summary
When Victor Hugo died at eighty-three, the crowd at his state funeral in Paris numbered over a million. He was the most famous writer in the world. In the English-speaking part of it he is known mainly for two novels, Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862), both of which have been adapted many times for movies, plays and of course, musicals. But he was also a playwright, whose Hernani (1830) caused a storm of controversy and became the rallying point of the young Romantic movement; he and his wife Adèle became the hosts of a cénacle or literary circle that included Musset, Vigny, Sainte-Beuve, Gautier, Berlioz, and Delacroix. And he was above all else a poet of enormous gifts and range.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 129 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021