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It is the song of a drinker praising the healing power of wine to drive away all troubles. This kind of pseudo-folk song was not unusual in Hungarian poetry of the 1840s, but Petőfi soon developed an original and fresh voice which made him stand out. He wrote many folk song-like poems on the subjects of wine, love, romantic robbers etc.
His poems can be divided into three thematic categories: love poems, war poems and religious poems. Zrínyi's most significant work, Szigeti veszedelem (" Peril of Sziget ", 1648/49) is an epic written in the style of the Iliad , and recounts the heroic Battle of Szigetvár , where his great-grandfather died while defending the castle of ...
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 ...
The Toldi trilogy is an epic poem trilogy by the Hungarian poet János Arany, inspired by the legendary Miklós Toldi, who served in the Hungarian King Louis the Great's army in the 14th century. The trilogy recounted the medieval stories of Toldi as the king's champion. The trilogy comprises: Toldi (1846) Toldi szerelme (Toldi's Love) (1879)
"O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst" is an 1829 poem by the 19th-century German writer Ferdinand Freiligrath.Hungarian composer Franz Liszt set the first four stanzas in 1843 as a lied for soprano voice and piano, S. 298, and later adapted it into the third of his Liebesträume (Dreams of Love), S. 541.
Balassi's poems fall into four divisions: hymns, patriotic and martial songs, original love poems, and adaptations from the Latin and German. They are all most original, exceedingly objective and so excellent in point of style that it is difficult even to imagine him a contemporary of Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos and Péter Ilosvay. But his ...
Endre Ady (Hungarian: diósadi Ady András Endre, archaic English: Andrew Ady; [1] 22 November 1877 – 27 January 1919) was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist.
While at FIU, he published a collection of original poems in Mother Tongue: A Broken Hungarian Love Song, a volume of short stories, Budapest to Bellevue, a collection of folk tales titled Magyar Tales, three novels (Attila, Millie, and Daughter of the Revolution), and a two volume textbook about the Hungarian exile experience.