
Selected Poems
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In this new 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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents 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.
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Brooks Haxton's poetry translations include Dances for Flute and Thunder: Poems from the Ancient Greek, which was nominated for a PEN translation award, and Victor Hugo's Selected Poems for Penguin Classics.
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One-Year-Old As I Have Set My Lip Oceano Nox Nights in June Napoleon's Army After the Fall of Moscow My Two Girls Barefoot Letter from Normandy How It Happened (December 4, 1851) All Souls' Day, 1846 When We Were Living (September 4, 1844) Little Song (to Leopoldine, September 3, 1847) The Graveyard at Villequier (September 4, 1847) Word from the Dunes (August 4, 1854) The Seven Oxen of the Northern Plough Shepherds and Flocks Mugitusque Boum Flower Dawn at the Edge of the Woods Orpheus Boaz Asleep The Trumpet of Judgment During Sickness Et Nox Facta Est The Plume of Satan Whose Fault Is This? (June 25, 1871) From The Art of Being a Grandfather: Lesson One: The Moon To Théophile Gautier Sonnet Notes
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