Legende des Siecles : collection (1859) of metaphysical epics by Victor Hugo.
... the epic height and grandeur. Similarly, Shelley' Revolt of Islam, Keats' s incomplete Hyperion have something of the epic accent, but they too do not succeed much. Victor Hugo's La Legende des Siecles, Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, and Thomas Hardy's Dynasts — all seem to have some element of epic, but they fail to achieve the largeness, the grandeur and the integral vision ...
... An infinite rapture veiled by infinite pain. Perhaps the first three lines are near the epic—there may be one or two others. I don't know how I differentiate. Victor Hugo in the 'Legende des Siecles' tries to be epic and often succeeds, perhaps even on the whole: Marlowe is sometimes great or sublime, but I would lot call him epic. There is a greatness or sublimity that is epic, there is ...
... looking Page 373 back is really a glimpsing beyond the semi-darkness to see the approaching new dawn of equality, justice and freedom." 7 There is Victor Hugo's La legende des siecles, which is said to have the true epic movement and quality. There have been other, though less successful, attempts too during the last one hundred and fifty years; and, besides, long poems ...
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