Literature

Poetry Tuesday!: "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo

Sasha Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.3.2020 3:58 PM

Here's "Les Djinns" (1829) by Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe

Sasha Volokh is professor of law at Emory University.

Literature