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Odes et ballades

poems by Hugo

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  • Victor Hugo
    In Victor Hugo: Early years (1802–30)

    In 1826 he also published Odes et ballades, an enlarged edition of his previously printed verse, the latest of these poems being brilliant variations on the fashionable Romantic modes of mirth and terror. The youthful vigour of these poems was also characteristic of another collection, Les Orientales (1829), which appealed…

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