Also recommended:
gavroche.org
Napoleon.org
Hugo-Online
19th c. author links - Bib. nat. de France
Poem Resource-
Articles, links & more, free
E-mail: hugo@gbarto.com
Visit these other gbarto.com resources:
multilingua.info - for learning one or more languages
Les Pages Lamartine - a very few poems in English translation
The Victor Hugo Bookstore - Victor Hugo books with reviews of selected items
The Eurolanguage Bookstore - for quick solutions to learning French, Spanish, Italian and German
The Exotic Language Bookstore - from Irish to Japanese with stops including Arabic and Uzbek
The Language Pages - short previews of selected languages, including a character by character reading of the first chapter of the Tao-Te-Ching
You can help support the Hugo Pages by donating or purchasing an Amazon recommended book.
The New Hugo Bookshop
Poetry
All translations copyright Geoffrey Barto, 2001-, unless otherwise indicated
FR=original French, VT=verse translation, LT=literal translation, Rd= Read a poem together
[XML] = extensible markup language. It may not be viewable in all browsers. Information on our markup available on request.
[HTML] = hypertext markup language, the standard coding used on the internet.
Remember to click the [HTML] link if you're having problems with the regular link.
from Les Contemplations
AUTREFOIS (THE PAST)
Opening poem (in blank verse) VT [HTML]
Livre premier: Aurore
I. A ma fille / To my daughter LT [HTML]
II. Le poète s'en va dans les champs... / The poet goes off in the fields... LT [HTML]
III. Mes deux filles / My two daughters LT [HTML]
IV. Le firmament est plein de la vaste clarté / The firmament is full with brightness LT [HTML]
V. A / To Andre Chenier LT [HTML]
VI. La vie aux champs / Life in the Country LT [HTML]
XV. La Coccinelle / The Ladybug LT [HTML]
Livre deuxième: L'Ame en fleur
II. Mes vers fuiraient doux et frêles / Sweet and frail, my lines would fly Rd [HTML]
X. Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle... / My arm squeezed your fragile waist... LT [HTML]
XIII. Viens! - une flûte invisible... / Come! An invisible flute... LT [HTML]
XXI. Il lui disait... / He was telling her... LT [HTML]
Livre troisième: Les luttes et les rêves
I. Ecrit sur un exemplaire de la Divina Commedia / Written on a copy of the Divine Comedy Rd [HTML]
II. Melancholia: Les Misérables in miniature
in progress
Introductory essay and lines 1-254 (of 336) have been posted. Commentary on the poem's sections and its relationship to Les Misérables will be added in time..
IV. Ecrit au bas d'un crucifixe / Written at the bottom of a crucifix LT [HTML]
VI. La source/The Spring LT [HTML]
IX. Jeune fille, la grâce emplit... FR [XML]
IX. Lass, at seventeen you're filled with grace... VT [HTML]
XXV. L'enfant, voyant l'aïeule a filer occupée / The child, seeing grandma busy spinning LT [HTML]
XXX. Magnitudo parvi VT HTML]
commentary
AUJOURD'HUI (TODAY)
Livre quatrième: Pauca meae
II. 15 février 1843 / February 15, 1843 LT [HTML]
IV. Oh! je fus comme fou dans le premier moment/Oh! I was like a fool at first LT [HTML]
VI. Quand nous habitions tous ensemble / When we all lived together LT [HTML]
VIII. A qui donc sommes-nous? To whom do we belong? LT [HTML]
XIII. Veni, vidi, vixi LT [HTML]
Livre cinqième: En marche
XIX. Au poëte qui m'envoie une plume d'aigle/To the poet who sent me an eagle's feather LT [HTML]
Livre sixième: Au bord de l'infini
I. Le Pont / The Bridge VT [HTML]
VII. Un jour, le morne esprit... One day, the gloomy spirit... LT [HTML]
XII. Aux anges qui nous voient / To the angels that see us LT [HTML]
from Les Orientales
Pantoum malais/Malaysian Pantoum LT [HTML]
(reprinted from letter from Fouinet)
from Les Feuilles d'automne
I. "Ce siècle avait deux ans" FR [XML]
from Les Châtiments
Nox
I. C'est la date choisie... FR [XML]
I. At the bottom of your thoughts... VT [HTML]
This is the date you chose...
by Peter Hicks of Napoleon.org
Commentary by Geoffrey Barto
Livre premier : La société est sauvée
IX. L'Art et le peuple FR [XML]
IX. Art and the people LT [HTML]
Livre deuxième : L'ordre est rétabli
III. Souvenir de la nuit du 4 / Memory of the Night of the 4th LT [HTML]
V. "Puisque le juste est dans l'abîme" FR [XML]
Livre troisième : La famille est restaurée
III. Fable ou histoire FR [XML]
III. Fable or History VT [HTML]
commentary
Livre quatrième : La religion est glorifiée
II. Ce que le poëte se disait en 1848 FR [XML]
II. What the poet was telling himself in '48 VT [HTML]
XII A quatre prisonniers FR [XML]
commentary
Livre cinquième : L'autorité est sacrée
II. Chanson ("Un jour, Dieu sur sa table...") FR [XML]
II. Song ("Sitting at His table one day...") VT [HTML]
commentary
Livre sixième : La stabilité est assurée
VII. Luna FR [XML]
VII. Luna LT [HTML]
XII. ("On dit: - soyez prudents...") FR [XML]
XII. ("They say: "Be prudent...") VT [HTML]
Livre septième : Les sauveurs se sauveront
VIII. Cette nuit, il pleuvait, la marée était haute... FR [HTML]
with translation FR/LT [HTML]
Lux
I ("Temps futurs! vision sublime!") FR [HTML]
Essays on Hugo and literature
by Geoffrey Barto
Victor Hugo: Author and Politician
Victor Hugo: Praised and Scorned
Hugo and Flaubert at the barricades
Hugo and Economics: Private Property
Hugo and Economics: The Worker
Thoughts on translation
Notes on French versification
Thoughts on tragedy
All essays copyright Geoffrey Barto, 2000-
The Hugo Pages are a service of gbarto.com, intended to introduce English speakers to the master's poetry. Most of our content is available for free for classroom use (see Terms of Service for details). By shopping at our bookstores or making a donation, you can help us continue to offer this service.
Geoffrey Barto
Owner, operator, webmaster, editor and head writer for gbarto.com
Visit gbarto.com for English verse, language information and maybe a mouse race or two.
And don't forget these other gbarto.com resources:
Les Pages Lamartine - a very few poems in English translation
