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Odes and Ballads Author(s) Victor Hugo Original title Odes et Ballades Country France Language French Publisher Hector Bossange Publication date 1828 Odes et Ballades, published in 1828, is the most complete version of a collection of poems by Victor Hugo written and published between 1822 and 1828. It includes five books of odes and one book of ballads.
They are among his very earliest works, and reflect the Catholic royalist views of his early twenties. He would write seven different prefaces for it, dated 1822, 1823, 1824, 1826, 1828, followed by one in 1853, at which time he was in self-imposed exile, and a final one in 1880. Hugo expresses a view of the difference between "order" and "regularity" which elevates the former on the basis that an irregularity in art can have its own logic, or order, and achieve effects impossible to regularity, or classical evenness.
The version of 1826 received a generally positive review from the 22-year-old Sainte-Beuve in the Globe (January 1827), and this review resulted in their friendship.
The collection includes Ode à la Colonne de la Place Vendôme, a response to the Austrian ambassador's decision in early 1827 to stop recognizing Napoleonic titles. First published in the Journal des débats, it represents the first praise of Napoleon in Hugo's work (but not a major political shift as he later claimed). It should be distinguished from the ode on the same subject in Les Chants du crépuscule.
Bibliography
- The essential Victor Hugo. Translated by E. H. Blackmore, A. M. Blackmore. Oxford University Press, 2004
Works by Victor Hugo Novels Han d'Islande (1823) · Bug-Jargal (1826) · Le Dernier jour d'un condamné (1829) · Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) · Les Misérables (1862) · Les Travailleurs de la Mer (1866) · L'Homme qui rit (1869) · Quatrevingt-treize (1874)
Plays Cromwell (1827) · Hernani (1830) · Marion Delorme (1831) · Le roi s'amuse (1832) · Lucrèce Borgia (1833) · Marie Tudor (1833) · Claude Gueux (1834) · Angelo, tyran de Padoue (1835) · Ruy Blas (1838) · Les Burgraves (1843) · Torquemada (1882)
Poetry collections Odes et poésies diverses (1822) · Nouvelles Odes (1824) · Odes et Ballades (1828) · Les Orientales (1829) · Les Feuilles d'automne (1831) · Les Chants du crépuscule (1835) · Les Voix intérieures (1837) · Les Rayons et les Ombres (1840) · Les Châtiments (1853) · Les Contemplations (1856) · La Légende des siècles (Part One 1859) · Les Chansons des rues et des bois (1865) · L'Année terrible (1872) · L'Art d'être grand-père (1877) · La Légende des siècles (Part Two 1877) · Le Pape (1878) · La Pitié suprême (1879) · Religions et religion (1880) · L'Âne (1880) · Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit (1881) · Final part of La Légende des siècles (1883) · La Fin de Satan (1886) · Dieu (1891, 1941) · Toute la Lyre (1888, 1893, 1897, 1935-1937) · Les Années funestes (1898) · Dernière Gerbe (1902, 1941) · Océan, Tas de pierres (1942) · Le Verso de la page (1960) · Œuvres d'enfance et de jeunesse, 1814-20 (juvenilia, 1964)
Categories:- Poetry stubs
- Poetry by Victor Hugo
- 1828 poems
- Works originally published in Journal des débats
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