Selected poetry

Hugo, Victor 1802-1885 (Author). Monte, Steven, 1967- (Added Author).

Summary: 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 translatin.

Record details

ISBN: 1136068422
ISBN: 9781136068423
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.17 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; from Odes and Ballads; To My Odes; from Orientalia; The Captive; Moonlight; The Djinns; Reverie; Rapture; from Autumn heaves; The Slope of Reverie; Setting Suns (II); Setting Suns (VI); from The Songs of Daybreak; To the Column; from Inner Voices; To Albrecht Dürer; 'The war that scoundrel wages ... '; The Cow; from Sunbeams and Shadows; 'Just as in a forest's drowsy pools ... '; Written on the pane of a Flemish window; Olympio's Sadness; Oceano Nox; June Nights; from Punishments; Memory of the Night of the Fourth.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Language Note:	French original and English translation on facing pages.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.