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Les Contemplations… Hardcover - 1856

by HUGO, Victor [Marie] [1802-1885]

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Paris: Michel Levy Frères - J.Hetzel – Pagnerre Éditeurs, 1856., 1856. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 359; 2 p.l., 408. with half-titles. contemporary quarter chagrin, gilt backs (light foxing to outer leaves). Second Edition. Composed of six books, the fourth containing a series of poems consecrated to the memory of his eldest daughter who was drowned in the Seine together with her husband shortly after her wedding ("the noblest of all tributes ever paid by song to sorrow" – Encyc. Britan., 11th Edn.), and the last two written during his first four years of exile, which which have been praised as including "more than a few poems unsurpassed and unsurpassable for depth and clarity and trenchancy of thought, for sublimity of inspiration, for intensity of faith, for loyalty in translation from nature, and for tenderness in devotion to truth." (Ibid.) Carteret I 419. Vicaire IV 321.. Hardcover.
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