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The Letters of Victor Hugo (2); From Exile, and After the Fall of the Empire
The Letters of Victor Hugo From Exile and After the Fall of the Empire - 2 Author:Victor Hugo Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1898 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may b... more »e typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Power of the poet! Here are the private soldier and the nursemaid transfigured. They will no longer be laughed at . What an elegy you have managed to extract from these hitherto grotesque figures. Melancholia. We always have to revert to the great allegorical bat of Albert Diirer. Melancholy is our background. Life is enacted in front; God is behind. Let us hope. Will you forward the inclosed to M. Paul Verlaine, your friend and mine ? XCV1II. To TiiturniLK Gautier. Hai Tkvili. k House, 29rt AprO,. lSCS. Dear TirtoPHitE, -- I have just read your splendid article on La ttqende dcs sitcles. I am more than touched by it; I am deeply moved. So sweet voices still reach me in my solitude. Our youthful attachment has become an old friendship. The great gulf between us does not prevent your glance from seeking mine and my hand from pressing yours. You give me one of your wreaths, you who have the right to all. As a poet, you are a spokesman of the ideal; as a critic, you are a spokesman of glory. Why has a laurel grown on this spot? Because Petrarch once spoke there. What was said of Petrarch will be said of you. Where your criticism casts its seed, the laurel will spring op. TO ACGUSTE TACQUERIE. 213 XCIX. To Mme. Chf-vat. . Bkumku, 27fA August, 7 A. M , [1868]. My Poor Julie, -- Your sister is dead. This beloved creature has left us. On the 24th she was in perfect health, she was driving about Brussels with us in excellent spirit...« less