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Victor Hugo

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Victor Hugo

Poetry

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Victor Hugo means that drama fully embodies the qualities of poetry, while odes and epics only show early or partial forms of these qualities. Drama combines and perfects the elements found in both, representing them at their highest level.

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