Victor Hugo - Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Best known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Mis?rables, Victor Hugo was primarily a poet-one of the most important and prolific in French history. Despite his renown, however, there are few comprehensive collections of his verse available and even fewer translated editions.
Drawing on a survey of the French literature most widely taught in schools throughout the United States and Britain, translators E. H. and A. M. Blackmore have collected Victor Hugo's essential verse into a single, bilingual volume that showcases all the facets of Hugo's oeuvre, including intimate love poems, satires against the political establishment, serene meditations, religious verse, and narrative poems illustrating his mastery of the art of storytelling and his abiding concern for the social issues of his time. More than half of this volume's eight thousand lines of verse appear here for the first time in English, providing readers with a new perspective on each of the fascinating periods of Hugo's career and aspe