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Attila József (Hungarian: [ˈɒtillɒ ˈjoːʒɛf]; 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was one of the most famous Hungarian poets of the 20th century. [1] Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet" and he has become the best known of the modern Hungarian poets internationally.
Every Hungarian primary school child learns some of his poems by heart [citation needed]. The Hungarian 10 Forint banknote valid between 1947 and 1992 depicted Sándor Petőfi on the obverse. Petőfi has a larger than life terra cotta statue near the Pest end of Erzsébet Bridge , sculpted by Miklós Izsó and Adolf Huszár [ hu ] .
The oldest complete, continuous text in Hungarian is Halotti beszéd és könyörgés, a short funeral oration written in about 1192–1195, moving in its simplicity. [1] The oldest poem is Ómagyar Mária-siralom (the Lamentations of Mary), a free translation from Latin of a poem by Godefroy de Breteuil. [1] It is also the oldest surviving ...
The National Poem On your feet, Magyar, [3] the homeland calls! The time is here, now or never! Shall we be slaves or free? This is the question, choose your answer! - By [4] the God of the Hungarians We vow, We vow, that we won't be slaves any longer! We were slaves up til now, Damned are our ancestors, Who lived and died free, Cannot rest in ...
The poem was set to music by the Hungarian band Kaláka in 1989. Dalriada made a different setting in 2003, which was re-recorded and re-released in 2004 and in 2009, on an album with several other settings of Arany poems. The Welsh composer Karl Jenkins wrote a cantata to the Zollman translation of the poem in 2011. [4] [5]
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János Arany (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈjaːnoʃ ˈɒrɒɲ]; archaic English: John Arany; [1] 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist. [2] He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 102 ballads that have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the ...