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Hugo's most surprising collection (1877) — lyric poems about his grandchildren Jeanne and Georges, combining domestic charm and humor with late philosophical depth. If this warmly human, unexpected collection moved you, these books explore similar territory.
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Les Contemplations
by Victor Hugo
The great preceding lyric collection — the elegiac world from which L'Art d'être grand-père emerges; the love for Jeanne and Georges is the regenerative resolution of the grief for Léopoldine.
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Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit
by Victor Hugo
The great late collection written four years later — the philosophical continuation of the same late period; reading L'Art d'être grand-père alongside Les Quatre Vents gives the full range of the late Hugo's lyric work.
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À la manière de plusieurs
by Paul Verlaine
Verlaine's most intimate poetry — the closest contemporary parallel in register and emotional directness to the playful, affectionate poems of L'Art d'être grand-père.
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Les Fleurs du mal
by Charles Baudelaire
The dark contemporary parallel — reading Baudelaire's urban, anguished poetry alongside Hugo's domestic, joyful late poems shows the full range of what French nineteenth-century lyric poetry can contain.
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Sagesse
by Paul Verlaine
Verlaine's collection of poems of faith and simplicity — the late nineteenth-century parallel to the emotional directness and acceptance that characterizes the best poems of L'Art d'être grand-père.
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Tenderness
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke's poems of everyday love and tenderness — the closest modern parallel in register to the playful, domestic, and philosophical love for the grandchildren that Hugo expresses in L'Art d'être grand-père.
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Stardust
by Pablo Neruda
Neruda's Odes to Common Things — the closest mid-century parallel to Hugo's capacity to find philosophical weight in the most everyday domestic details of the grandchildren's lives.
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La Légende des siècles
by Victor Hugo
The great epic continuation — the contrast between the vast philosophical sweep of La Légende des siècles and the tiny domestic tenderness of L'Art d'être grand-père shows the full range of the late Hugo's imagination.
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