Without the ego, there is no lyric poetry.
- Hugo
To understand the poet Hugo, you can start by becoming familiar with Hugo's lyric poems.
From the perspective of European literary history, the national writers who embody the highest achievements of a country's literature are mainly poets.
Ancient Greece had the blind poet Homer (the Iliad and Odyssey were written in the 8th century BC), Italy had Dante, the author of the Divine Comedy, Portugal was Camons, England was Shakespeare, Germany was Goethe, and Russia could be Pushkin.
What about the writers who represent French literature? Victor Hugo, of course.
Hugo is our closest national poet. Behind Hugo, French poetry, Western poetry, began to enter the modern category.
Hugo's poems, before his death, were appreciated by the common customs, and the poetry was far and wide, and he flourished for a long time after his death. In 1952, the poet Aragon compiled a "Selected Poems of Hugo" entitled "Have You Read Hugo's Poems?" " is a challenging question for the reader.
Hugo's life was a long one. Hugo was a versatile writer who made great contributions to plays, novels, and poetry. And Hugo, the genius writer, was first and foremost a genius poet.
This "Selected Poems of Hugo" selects nearly 100 poems, nearly 6,000 lines. This is a small and medium-sized Selected Poems of Hugo. In one volume, we get to know the general picture of the poet Victor Hugo, and we know the essence of the creation of the most representative writers in the history of French literature.
Readers who have read Hugo's novels, and who have seen films adapted from Hugo's works, should understand the achievements of the poet Hugo.
Readers who do not know Hugo's poetry can hardly be said to be Hugo's real readers.
To borrow an Aragorn question: "Have you read Hugo's poems?" ”
