{"product_id":"pomes-slectionns-isbn-9780142437032","title":"Poèmes sélectionnés","description":"\u003cb\u003eA selection of poems from one of the nineteenth century's greatest French writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was known foremost as a poet—indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with passion about history, sensual experience, familial love, philosophy, nature, social justice, art, and mysticism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this bicentennial edition, acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton offers an exquisite selection of Hugo's finest work: love poems, historical tableaux, elegy, and idyll, including his incomparable \"Boaz Asleep,\" which Marcel Proust praised as the most beautiful poem of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Selected PoemsIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne-Year-Old\u003cbr\u003eAs I Have Set My Lip\u003cbr\u003eOceano Nox\u003cbr\u003eNights in June\u003cbr\u003eNapoleon's Army After the Fall of Moscow\u003cbr\u003eMy Two Girls\u003cbr\u003eBarefoot\u003cbr\u003eLetter from Normandy\u003cbr\u003eHow It Happened (December 4, 1851)\u003cbr\u003eAll Souls' Day, 1846\u003cbr\u003eWhen We Were Living (September 4, 1844)\u003cbr\u003eLittle Song (to Leopoldine, September 3, 1847)\u003cbr\u003eThe Graveyard at Villequier (September 4, 1847)\u003cbr\u003eWord from the Dunes (August 4, 1854)\u003cbr\u003eThe Seven Oxen of the Northern Plough\u003cbr\u003eShepherds and Flocks\u003cbr\u003eMugitusque Boum\u003cbr\u003eFlower\u003cbr\u003eDawn at the Edge of the Woods\u003cbr\u003eOrpheus\u003cbr\u003eBoaz Asleep\u003cbr\u003eThe Trumpet of Judgment\u003cbr\u003eDuring Sickness\u003cbr\u003eEt Nox Facta Est\u003cbr\u003eThe Plume of Satan\u003cbr\u003eWhose Fault Is This? (June 25, 1871)\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Being a Grandfather\u003c\/i\u003e: Lesson One: The Moon\u003cbr\u003eTo Théophile Gautier\u003cbr\u003eSonnet\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictor Hugo\u003c\/b\u003e (1802-85) was a forceful and prolific writer. He became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. His body is now buried in the Pantheon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrooks Haxton\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry translations include \u003cb\u003eDances for Flute and Thunder: Poems from the Ancient Greek\u003c\/b\u003e, which was nominated for a PEN translation award, and Victor Hugo's \u003cb\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e for Penguin Classics.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303104958693,"sku":"NP9780142437032","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437032.jpg?v=1767734908","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/pomes-slectionns-isbn-9780142437032","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}