Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cercle Francais. Lectures on French Romanticism. V. Le Theatre romantique. Le Theatre de Victor Hugo. De Cromwell aux Burgraves. M. Rene Doumic. Sanders Theatre...
From this fact it will be seen what determined the choice of subjects which occupied Victor Hugo's imagination. Love hardly inspired him. On the other hand he celebrated family affection; and was almost the only one in France who could write about children. In the third place, he busied himself in his verse with the chronicle of daily life, especially political life. In his various collections of works he transcribed the opinions which swayed the French mind. He was a royalist in his "Odes," an advocate of independence in his "Orientales," a revolutionist in his "Feuilles d'Automne...
Such is the matter of Victor Hugo's poetry. What was its form...
...Victor Hugo's originality is shown in his "Orientales." There we find light, color and material visions. Later in his best compositions it is to be noticed that objects and things have the most important position and are the most magnificently rendered. The poetry of Victor Hugo is material...
...Victor Hugo strengthens his images by his science of composition and by his rhetoric. As to his rhythm, no one has ever had a more delicate feeling for the harmony of the syllables of the French language. Now all these methods of Victor Hugo's can be imitated. It is for this reason that he has had disciples and that his methods of composition and rhythm have had imitators. For this reason he has exerted an enormous influence on the literature of the whole century. He has opened our eyes to new images and colors. He has opened our ears...