SOURCE: "The Sublimity of Hugo's Odes," in The Renaissance of the Lyric in French Romanticism: Elegy, "Poëme" and Ode, French Forum Publishers, 1978, pp. 75-106.
In this excerpt, Porter examines the ways in which Hugo transformed the ode genre during the early and middle phases of his career.
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