Prophetic Chattiness
Patrick McGuinness: Victor Hugo, 19 June 2003
The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems
by Victor Hugo, translated by Harry Guest.
Anvil, 250 pp., £12.95, November 2002,0 85646 345 0 Show More
by Victor Hugo, translated by Harry Guest.
Anvil, 250 pp., £12.95, November 2002,
Selected Poetry
by Victor Hugo, translated by Steven Monte.
Carcanet, 305 pp., £12.95, September 2001,1 85754 539 7 Show More
by Victor Hugo, translated by Steven Monte.
Carcanet, 305 pp., £12.95, September 2001,
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition
edited by E.H. Blackmore and A.M. Blackmore.
Chicago, 631 pp., £24.50, April 2001,0 226 35980 8 Show More
edited by E.H. Blackmore and A.M. Blackmore.
Chicago, 631 pp., £24.50, April 2001,
“... For its due honour and its suffering – True to my parents’ blood in every way, He from the army, she from the Vendée. Hugo rhymes his birth with the moment Bonaparte becomes Napoleon. In Choses vues, a posthumous four-volume prose miscellany, he describes the 1848 Revolution as a ‘parody’ of 1793 in which the guillotine ‘plagiarised’ its ... ”
