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,
“... trembled; I stood on Aristotle’s milestone, And declared the words equal, free, and of age. (Monte’s translation) Hugo had an eccentric theory of genius (best seen in the visionary barminess of his book on Shakespeare), but he also knew how to appeal to the ordinary. He understood the symbolic dimension of politics, and made good use of it: the man ... ”
