The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems - Softcover

Hugo, Victor; Guest, Harry

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9780856463457: The Distance, The Shadows: Selected Poems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0856463450 ISBN 13: 9780856463457
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

Victor Hugo, the most prolific and versatile of the French Romantics, is one of the greatest nineteenth-century writers. Partly because of its enormous range and variety, his poetry has remained comparatively little known outside France. In this new edition of his acclaimed translations,

 

Harry Guest convincingly brings into English many of Hugo's great qualities: his passion for social justice, his simple humanity and an imaginative breadth of vision which few poets have equalled. The book's usefulness is enhanced by the inclusion of the French texts, drawn as they are from so many different periods of Hugo's work.

 

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. A Puzzling Harvest, his collected poems 1955-2000, is also published by Anvil.

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About the Author

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge before becoming a teacher in England and Japan. A Puzzling Harvest was published in the in 2003 to mark the poet's 70th birthday. Victor Hugo was born February 26, 1802 in Besançon, France. He was an avid advocate of social justice; In 1851, after the unsuccessful revolt against President Louis Napoleon, Hugo fled to Brussels and then to the island of Guernsey. Hugo's exile lasted for almost 20 years. Finally, he returned to France, resuming his role in politics and eventually becoming a senator. He died May 22, 1885, in Paris, and was given a national funeral that was attended by two million people.

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Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Publication date
2004
Language
French
ISBN 10 
0856463450
ISBN 13 
9780856463457
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Rating
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