Significados de hugoesque en inglés

The passage is powerful, even sensational, and in the Romantic, Hugoesque key.

Hugo, in turn, styled Sainte-Beuve "an eagle," "a blazing star," and paid him other compliments no less gorgeous and Hugoesque.

I had to edit it somewhat, because he was inclined to be Hugoesque and melodramatic in describing the action with very short sentences.