Odes et poésies diverses
poems by Hugo
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discussed in biography
- In Victor Hugo: Early years (1802–30)
…his first book of poems, Odes et poésies diverses, whose royalist sentiments earned him a pension from Louis XVIII. Behind Hugo’s concern for classical form and his political inspiration, it is possible to recognize in these poems a personal voice and his own particular vein of fantasy.
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