Poems by Victor Hugo

Written by Victor Hugo

Narrated by Katie Haigh

Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. We have selected for you 28 of his most well-known and powerful poems, mosty from the immortal Autumn Leaves and Contemplations.

They are, in order:

• Childhood
• Death in Life
• Epitaph
• Have you nothing to say for yourself
• How Butterflies are born
• I am content; Inscription for a crucifix
• Satire on the Earth
• St John
• The Dying Child to its Mother
• The Poet's Simple Faith
• The Vale to you, to me the Heights
• Infantile Influence
• Sunset
• The Patience of the People
• The Poet's Love for Liveliness
• The Universal Prayer
• The Watching Angel
• Dictated before the Rhone Glacier
• Tribute to the Vanquished

Enjoy the intense rhythm and depth of Hugo's poetry, an essential part of French culture and one of the most beautiful works of poerty ever written.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Astorg Audio
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9782821108271

Victor Hugo

The best-known of the French Romantic writers, Victor Hugo was a poet, novelist, dramatist, and political critic. Hugo was an avid supporter of French republicanism and advocate for social and political equality, themes that reflect most strongly in his works Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), and Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (The Last Day of a Condemned Man). Hugo’s literary works were successful from the outset, earning him a pension from Louis XVIII and membership in the prestigious Académie française, and influencing the work of literary figures such as Albert Camus, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Elevated to the peerage by King Louis-Philippe, Hugo played an active role in French politics through the 1848 Revolution and into the Second and Third Republics. Hugo died in 1885, revered not only for his influence on French literature, but also for his role in shaping French democracy. He is buried in the Panthéon alongside Alexandre Dumas and Émile Zola.