Hugo was insulted by the most powerful critics in France. He put into the preface of a play "his sling and his stone" by which others might slay "the classical Goliath." (Volume 39, Harvard Classics)
Victor Hugo born Feb. 26, 1802.
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (Inferno XXV-XXVII), by Dante Alighieri
Introductory Note: Edward Jenner
An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ, Or Cow-Pox, by Edward Jenner
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
The Two Dogs, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poems, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Introductory Note: John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi (Act IV), by John Webster
Introductory Note: Sir Walter Raleigh
The Discovery of Guiana, by Sir Walter Raleigh
Introductory Note: J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
Letters upon the Æsthetic Education of Man (Letters 1-7), by J. C. Friedrich von Schiller
Introductory Note: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal (Act IV, Scene III), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
Poems, by Robert Browning
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Vol. 2, Ch. 73-79), by Benvenuto Cellini
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