Pathological as it seems, we tend to express reverence for our favorite writers by reshaping their work into something more like what they should have done. Most of us manage this simply by reading ...

John Hollander is the author of numerous books, including "Figurehead: And Other Poems," "Selected Poetry," "Tesserae and Other Poems" and the anthology "Committed to Memory." He is Sterling professor ...

WHEN we read a beautiful poem it may very well happen that we find ourselves wholly fascinated by its charm, or possibly moved to tears by our interest in the fictitious story told us, so that we seem ...

Victor Hugo’s posthumous reputation rests mainly upon his magnificent and dauntingly prodigious output as a man of letters – as a novelist, a poet, a playwright and essayist, whose greatest work, “Les ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Prairie Schooner is a national literary quarterly published continuously since 1926. With the support of the English department at ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Victor Hugo’s son Charles described the Guernsey home where the French author wrote Les Misérables as a ...

THE purpose of this paper is to review the history of Victor Hugo’s fame. It may thus be possible to arrive at an opinion, that shall not be founded on individual taste or mere caprice, as to the ...