French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, Victor Hugo, created an advanced collection of poems relating to death, love, nature, and other aspects of life. Born in 1802, in Besançon, France, Victor Hugo grew up in Paris, France with his mother and two brothers. He had an admiration for Napoleon and often addressed many poems to the glory of this historical figure. Hugo’s literary achievement was recognized in 1841 by his election to the French Academy, a prestigious council for matters pertaining to the French language. Not only was he involved in literature, but he was also interested in politics; during the Revolution of 1848, Hugo was elected deputy for Paris in the Constituent Assembly and later in the Legislative Assembly. After a coup d’état, relating to Napoleon, took place in 1851, Hugo was exiled to Brussels where he stayed for a year. He then moved to England for a few years. After that, he settled in the island of Guernsey where he wrote most of his works (Victor Hugo). …show more content…
In 1826, Hugo published Odes et ballades, which made his distaste for the genre apparent. He then developed a group of friends who created the attitude of Romanticism, which was the belief that poetry should follow nature, mixing the beautiful and the good with the ugly and the displeasing (Victor Hugo Biography). Some of his most important and famous writings include Les Orientales (The Orientales, 1829), Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831), Les Feuilles d’automne (Autumn Leaves, 1831) and Les Misérables (The Miserables, 1862). In 1856 Hugo published Les Contemplations (Contemplations), a work described as the progression of life from infancy to its end, complete with all of the emotional experiences that happen to a person during this process (Victor Hugo