by Victor Hugo · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782091885209
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«Pauca Meae» is Book IV of Les Contemplations, Victor Hugo's poetry collection, published by Nathan in paperback (118 pages, in French).
After the accidental death of his daughter Léopoldine in 1843, Victor Hugo turned this Book IV of Les Contemplations into a journal of mourning. 'Pauca meae' ('a few verses for my daughter') brings together poems ranging from grief to memory, portraying her as woman, child and angel, in the French lyric and elegiac tradition.
Complete text of Book IV of Les Contemplations (1856), in the Carrés Classiques collection. Published on 3 January 2013; includes an interview with Alexandrine Achille, from the Maison Victor Hugo.
For students of French: this school edition offers keys to reading 19th-century Romantic poetry and working on mourning in the classroom.
French novelist, poet and dramatist, leading figure of Romanticism and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
