Including more than 80 poems in both French and English, this collection follows the poetry of Victor Hugo from his earliest poetic publications of the 1820s through works published after his death in 1885. Though recognized for his novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo invested his most sustained creative energy in poems such as "Tomorrow, at dawn. . . " and "Boaz Asleep." The collection's introduction includes a description of Hugo's life and work, the selection, and a discussion of the challenges of translation. Comprehensive endnotes offer information about the poems and their publishing and historical contexts.