Hernani : a tragedy by Victor Hugo.
... 1936 F. L. Lucas 1 could count 11,397 books, including his own. Once even some blood was about to be shed: on the night of November 25, 1830, the theatre at Paris where Victor Hugo's Romantic play Hernani was first shown became a roaring cockpit of combatant critics. But not always has much light been shed: possibly the heat of the discussion was too great to leave room for sufficient light. This... side or the other, F.L. Lucas 2 dwells at some length on this difficulty. We need not go into it in detail. We may just illustrate an aspect of it which becomes relevant by our mention of Hugo and Hernani. Lucas quotes Lascelles Abercrombie as opposing Romanticism to Realism. By Realism· Abercrombie means not the literary creed of a Zola with its insistence on crude raw life but the utilitarian... Page 1 familiar kind. The Classicists even frowned at familiar language. Was not Hugo almost mobbed for flinging the homely word "mouchoif " ("handkerchief") in the midst of his Hernani' s sentimental and sonorous alexandrines? According to Lucas, Hugo himself in his famous preface to that early play of his, Cromwell, associates Romanticism above all with "the grotesque" ...
... introduced into a poetic drama of his the wretched plebeian word "mouchoir". It was flung impertinently into the face of cultured Paris. That was in 1830 on the night of November 25 when his play Hernani was first performed. Instantly there was a commotion in the theatre. Page 62 Threats and insults were hurled, blows were exchanged, sticks thudded down on heads and shoulders. The ...
... generation Madhu Sudan's first great poems, Sharmishtha and Tilottama , had a complex effect much of a piece with the sensation created by Marlowe's Tamburlaine in Elizabethan England or Hugo's Hernani in nineteenth century France. They took men's imaginations by storm with their splendour, passion and mighty imagery; by creating the Bengali blank verse they freed poetry from the facilities and ...
... 13 April 1993.) 4 While Romanticism was the stimulating culture of the French Revolution, French romantic poetry had its efflorescence much later, say with Victor Hugo's Hernani (1830). Almost three decades after, Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (1857) "created a new shudder" in France, but also gave modern poetry the violent renovation it needed. His successors were ...
... new poetry." "...Madhusudan's first great poems Sharmistha and Tilottama had a complex effect, much of a piece with the sensation created by Marlowe's Tamburlaine in Elizabethan England or Hugo's Hernani in 19th century France. They took men's imagination by storm with their splendour, passion and mighty imagery; by creating the Bengali blank verse they freed poetry from the facilities and prettinesses ...
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