SOURCE: "The Poetry of Victor Hugo," in Studies in Literature: 1789–1877, Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1889, pp. 428–67.
In this excerpt from a review originally published in 1873, Dowden traces Hugo's development as a poet.
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