''Toute la Lyre'' is a posthumous collection of poems by

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

. The collection includes unpublished poems during his lifetime including love poems to Léonie d’Aunet. While the title is Hugo's, and had been previously announced, the selection was in fact made by

Paul Meurice Paul Meurice (5 February 1818 - 11 December 1905) was a French novelist and playwright best known for his friendship with Victor Hugo. Biography Meurice was born and died in Paris. In 1836, aged eighteen, he was introduced to Hugo by his fri ...

on the basis of the author's notes, and appeared in two instalments, in 1888 and 1893, with a revised version in 1897. The collection gathered previously unpublished poems, mostly dating from between 1854 and 1875 (Hugo's most productive period) along with a handful from the 1840s, into seven groups, each group called a "string" of the lyre. There is an appendix, a "bronze string". Like '' Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit'' (1881), it was an attempt to display all the facets of Hugo's poetry by dipping into the immense reservoir of material available. Some later editions of Hugo's complete works have disregarded this collection as being too miscellaneous, preferring to return each poem to its chronological place.

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{{Victor Hugo Poetry by Victor Hugo 1888 poems 1893 poems Poems published posthumously Unfinished poems