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Hugo, Victor. Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: a Bilingual Edition.(Book Review)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20020922
Author:Greenberg, Wendy

Trans. E.H. and A. M. Blackmore. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. Pp. 631. ISBN 0-226-35980-8

Australian translators E.H. and A. M. Blackmore have rendered eight thousand lines of Hugo's verse into rhyming meters. In the preface the translators stress that they have turned the rhymed couplets into a variety of English meters "couplets, quatrains, metrically flexible blank verse" because no English verse corresponds "even remotely to the French alexandrine" (xviii). They also have tried to avoid the monotony of English heroic couplets. For Americans some rhymes may appear ...

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