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Biography of Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte
Name: Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte
Birth Date: February 26, 1802
Death Date: May 22, 1885
Place of Birth: Besancon, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, poet
Victor Marie Hugo, Vicomte
The French author Victor Marie, Vicomte Hugo (1802-1885), was the supreme poet of French romanticism. He is noted for the breadth of his creation, the versatility that made him as much at ease in the novel as in the short lyric, and the mystical grandeur of his vision.Victor Hugo had a nomadic and anxious childhood. He was erratically schooled, a fact which accounts in part for the eclectic and unsystematic aspect of his poetic thought. At age 14 he wrote, "I want to be Chateaubriand or nothing." He had begun to write in every poetic genre--odes, satires, elegies, riddles, epics, madrigals--and to receive recognition while still in his adolescence, never having to fact the long years of obscurity and struggle that are the lot of most poets.In 1822 Hugo married his childhood sweetheart, Adèle Foucher, one and a half years after the death of his mother, who …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…publications and literary career. A partial account of the poet is Adèle Hugo, Victor Hugo, by a Witness of His Life, translated by Charles E. Wilbour (1964). Other studies are André Maurois, Olympio: The Life of Victor Hugo (1954; trans. 1956), Richard B. Grant, The Perilous Quest: Image, Myth, and Prophecy in the Narratives of Victor Hugo (1968), and Graham Robb, Victor Hugo (1998). A bibliography of works by and about Hugo is Elliott M. Grant, Victor Hugo: A Select and Critical Bibliography (1967). See also Horatio Smith, Masters of French Literature (1937).Decaux, Alain, Victor Hugo, Paris: Perrin, 1984.Ionesco, Eugene, Hugoliad, or, The grotesque and tragic life of Victor Hugo, New York: Grove Press, 1987.Juin, Hubert, Victor Hugo, Paris: Flammarion, 1980-c1986.Peyre, Henri, Victor Hugo: philosophy and poetry, University: University of Alabama Press, 1980.Richardson, Joanna, Victor Hugo, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.Stevens, Philip, Victor Hugo in Jersey, Shopwyke Hall, Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore, 1985.
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