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Mysteries of the Court of Miracles | Stephen Basdeo

“The blind man ran. The lame man ran. The man with no legs ran. And then, as he penetrated further down the street, the legless, the blind and the halt came swarming around him, together with the one-armed, the one-eyed, and the lepers with their sores….”

“I am a public thing”: Victor Hugo as Political Symbol | Stephen Basdeo

Hugo worked tirelessly on his self-imposed mission: poetry was so important, Hugo believed, that it should be a part of every aspect of life and had a central role to play in the story of national regeneration.

“Something strange and marvellous”: Victor Hugo’s Essay on Walter Scott | Stephen Basdeo

“He unites the exactness of the [medieval] chronicles, the majestic grandeur of history, and the all-compelling interest of romance.”