World Literature

1. World Literature

2. Who are they??
Victor Hugo
And
William Wordsworth

3. Quick facts

4. Victor Marie Hugo
1802-1885
William
Wordsworth
1770-1850
Born : February 26, 1802
At Besançon, France
Born: April 7, 1770
Wordsworth House,
Cockermouth, Kingdom of
Great Britain
French poet, novelist, and
dramatist Author, Playwright
Poet
Died: May 22, 1885, Paris,
France
Died: April 23, 1850
(aged 80)
Cumberland, United
Kingdom

5. Is there any Significant
Story of their life??

6. Victor Hugo…
Personal Life,
Literary Career,
Memorials

7. PERSONAL LIFE,
•Third son of Joseph Leopold Sigisbert and sophie trebuchet.
•Born in a military family
•His parents seperated when he was 12.
•Passionate supporter of republicanism.
•His wife Adele Foucher. Love affair Juliet Drouet.
•His daughter Leopoldine died w/ her husband .
•His son died at the age of 8.

8. LITERARY CARREER
•Won a poetry contest.
•Several novels such us. Cromwel Hernani, Had d Island, Hunchback of the notre
dame, Les miserables.
•Studied Law bet 1815-1818
•Founded Literary Magazine
•Cedes El poesive Divares
•Hand D Island
•3 Plays

9. MEMORIALS
•At the age of 76 he became seriously ill
•His body lay in state beneath the Arc de
triomphe bofair burial.
•Buried in the Pantheon

10. William Wordsworth’s
life…
Personal Life,
Literary Career,
Memorials

11. PERSONAL LIFE,
•Son of Johu Wordsworth and Ann Cookson.
•Mother Died when he was only 8. and five years after
his father died.
•William has 3 brothers and sister Dorothy.
•Fell in love to Annette Vallon & bore him a daughter
named Caroline.
•Married to Mary Hutchman

12. LITERARY CARREER
•with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
•Lyric Ballad.
•The prelude
•An evening walk & Descriptive Sketches.
•Appointed British poet Laureate

13. MEMORIALS
•Died in 1850 at the age of 80

14. Victor Hugo and
William Wordsworth are..
1. Both Romantic Writer
2. Both famous throughout the world
3. both supporters of a revolution

15. Romanticsm/ Romantic Period(era)
•Artistic Literary and intellectual movement that
originated in Europe.
•“Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
•Love for nature, peace, freedom etc.

16. Victor Hugo
Is devoted in expressing his political and
social beliefs.
But why???

17. William Wordsworth
Is developed in his writing a deep love
for nature
Because of ???

18. What is their Famous
Masterpiece??

19. The Expiation
Victor Hugo
Term:
Atoning for a sin
Suffering Punishment for an offense or crime,
What is the story behind the poem??

20. Long tragic retreat of
Napoleon Bonaparte
Grand Army ..

21. France Vs. Russia

22. Strategy

23. Fall of the French
Army

24. 1.Constantly attacked by Russian snipers.
2. Harsh Russian winter
3. Inadequate Clothing and food.
4. Frostbite

25. Defeat and exile of
Napoleon Bonaparte

26. Ode; Intimations of immortality
from recollections of early
childhood
William Wordsworth
Term:
Ode - Lyric Poem
Intimation - indirect suggestion or hint, announcement
Immortality- unending existence
recollection – memory that which is remembered.
What is the story behind the poem??

27. Stanza
I.
- Declares nature appeared mystical to life.
II. - Confesses that natural object are still visible.
III. - Says that he is determine to be depressed because It will mar the
beauty of nature.
IV. - Declare it would not be right if he determined aloof in that season.
V. - Highly Significant
VI. - Turns Philosophical
VII. - foresees the rest of his life.
VIII. - Calls the child a philosopher.
IX. - The longest in the poem.
X. - Speaks to the creatures.
XI. -Accepts that nature gives support to everything in his life.

28. Form and
Analysis
of the poem

29. Thank you for listening…
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