Poems

An infant is lifted from the Nile into a world of political peril. In “Moses on the Nile,” tenderness meets the force of legend.

This collection opens in the turbulent France that shaped Victor Hugo, then turns from the poet’s restless youth to poems of love, grief, power and conscience. Across odes, ballads and dramatic scenes, Hugo moves from the courtly world of kings to the plight of the oppressed, writing with a voice that can be tender one moment and fiercely defiant the next. Here, ancient legend and urgent human questions share the page: a child is rescued, while envy and avarice take shape as sisters. What will Hugo’s vivid scenes reveal about the passions that rule us?

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