Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Doumic devoted his third lecture on French Romanticism to Victor Hugo. A translation of his summary of the lecture follows...
...poetry of Victor Hugo came from without. His soul is an echo of the voices of the century. We shall try to see how his temperament, his education and his surroundings determined the choice of the subjects which developed the poet. We shall consider his main subjects and we shall examine into his treatment of them...
...Victor Hugo was of plebian origin; hence the vigor of his physical constitution, the violence of his anger, his intellectual and moral health; hence also a certain lack of taste, of tact and of delicacy. During his youth he wandered abroad, in Italy and Spain, where he accumulated a stock of impressions. These impressions received in the course of his travels became fruitful in the dreams of his later years...
...husband and father, Victor Hugo is the type of the French bourgeois. The French Bourgeois is a settled, sensible and prudent person; he is a man of the home; he distrusts passion; he loves his wife and loves his children even more; he is idle and talkative; he takes a deep interest in politics; he is a patriot and loves all things military; he is not very religious and not at all mystic; on the other hand, he has a distinct taste for morality and for commonplaces. Victor Hugo was all this: a bourgeois with genius...
Cercle Francais. Lectures on French Romanticism. V. Le Theatre romantique. Le Theatre de Victor Hugo. De Cromwell aux Burgraves. M. Rene Doumic. Sanders Theatre...