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The most philosophically ambitious of Hugo's 1830s lyric collections (1837) — the collection in which he begins to develop the visionary prophetic ambition that will culminate in Les Contemplations. If the philosophical depth and range of interior voices here moved you, these books explore similar territory.
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Les Rayons et les ombres
by Victor Hugo
The direct sequel and culmination of the 1830s lyric project — where Les Voix intérieures announces the prophetic Hugo, Les Rayons et les ombres delivers the fullest realization of it.
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Les Contemplations
by Victor Hugo
The great mature lyric collection (1856) that fully realizes the promise of Les Voix intérieures — the prophetic, philosophical, and elegiac voices that are being developed in 1837 are deployed at full scale twenty years later.
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Les Chants du crépuscule
by Victor Hugo
The preceding collection — the political and personal work that prepares the ground for the philosophical ambitions of Les Voix intérieures; reading them in sequence makes the development legible.
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Les Fleurs du mal
by Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire's great lyric collection — the heir to the tradition of the interior voices, in which the voices of conscience, beauty, and corruption are heard with the same intensity but in a very different moral and aesthetic framework.
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Les Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Lamartine's philosophical lyric collection — the closest parallel in terms of philosophical and religious ambition, hearing interior voices of nature and God with a similar meditative depth to Hugo's collection.
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La Légende des siècles
by Victor Hugo
Hugo's great philosophical epic (1859-83) — the fullest development of the prophetic voice that Les Voix intérieures announces, a collection of poems that narrates the moral progress of humanity through history.
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Les Élévations
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Lamartine's religious and philosophical lyrics — a parallel development of the meditative, prophetic voice in a more explicitly religious direction than Hugo takes in Les Voix intérieures.
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Eloa
by Alfred de Vigny
Vigny's great symbolic poem (1824) — the most philosophically ambitious of the first generation of Romantic poems, and a predecessor of the prophetic lyric ambition that Hugo develops in Les Voix intérieures.
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