Selected Poems of Victor Hugo A Bilingual Edition

"[A] monumental achievement....[T]he translations are made into English verse with outstanding skill and power, the product of the most informed decisions about what at any moment should be sacrificed--with regard to both diction and to formal and metrical matters--to gain something else. It is obvious that the translators know English poetry thoroughly and deeply and they have managed to catch Hugo's grand tone and his wit, his highly patterned and his more colloquial kinds of line. They have been able throughout, without stylistic fanfare, to rescue so many occasional moments which are usually lost in translation....The Blackmores' selection has been...carefully considered, and--aside from the amazingly high quality of the translations themselves--presented with...elegantly framed and useful apparatus...."Hugo, Victor is the author of 'Selected Poems of Victor Hugo A Bilingual Edition' with ISBN 9780226359809 and ISBN 0226359808.