Poems by Victor Hugo (best pdf ebook reader .TXT) 📕

th his mother's death all that had vanished. His tragedyof "Cromwell" broke lances upon Royalists and upholders of the stillreigning style of tragedy. The second collection of "Odes" preluding it,showed the spirit of the son of Napoleon's general, rather than of theBourbonist field-marshal. On the occasion, too, of the Duke of Tarentobeing announced at the Austrian Ambassador's ball, February, 1827, asplain "Marshal Macdonald," Victor became the mouthpiece of indignantBonapartists in his "Ode to the Napoleon Column" in the Place Vendôme.

His "Orientales," though written in a Parisian suburb by one who had nottravelled, appealed for Grecian liberty, and depicted sultans and pashasas tyrants, many a line being deemed applicable to personages nearer theSeine than Stamboul.

"Cromwell" was not actable, and "Amy Robsart," in collaboration with hisbrother-in-law, Foucher, miserably failed, notwithstanding a finale"superior to Scott's 'Kenilworth.'" In one twelvemonth, there was thisfailu