Pathological as it seems, we tend to express reverence for our favorite writers by reshaping their work into something more like what they should have done. Most of us manage this simply by ...

June Nights In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers Pours out far away an intoxicating scent; Eyes shut, ears half open to noises, We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.

Considered the greatest and best known French writer of all times, Victor-Marie Hugo was ... Coming of age after Napoleon’s defeat, Hugo began his life as a poet and a writer and soon became ...

Victor Hugo was such a poet for Baudelaire (whose verse the aging Hugo admired), as for every French poet who has followed after him, even those—especially those—who (like Paul Claudel) have most ...

WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRENCH POET of the nineteenth century? André Gide’s immortal comment—”Victor Hugo, alas!”—is as true today as it was when Gide wrote it in a letter to Paul Valéry ...

W it h an immense literary production and his remarkable public presence, Victor Hugo (1802–85) remains best known in the ...

The Hammer Museum's exhibition of Victor Hugo's drawings will make one wonder why the 'Les Mis' author wasn't better known for his art. French poet and writer Victor Hugo, drawn by R. Boyden (1865 ...

A curator has brought out the annotated manuscript of Victor Hugo’s world ... First past 30 Rue du Dragon, where Hugo lived in 1821 and wrote his first poetry collection Odes et Ballades ...

A recital of poems by Victor Hugo will be held on Sunday. Students majoring in French Literature from two local universities will recite two of Hugo's poems depicting China in both Chinese and French.

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Victor Hugo’s son Charles described the Guernsey home where the French author wrote Les Misérables as a ...

He described the house as a "three-dimensional poem" created by his ancestor. Mr Hugo also visited Guernsey in 2014, where he marked the centenary of the Victor Hugo statue in Candie Gardens.