Within, Beyond and Under: Remembering Ottó Orbán Cover Image

Belül, túl és a felszín alatt: emlékezés Orbán Ottóra
Within, Beyond and Under: Remembering Ottó Orbán

Author(s): George Szirtes
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Vörösmarty Társaság
Keywords: Literary friendship; private and public; the nature of Ottó Orbán's poetry; Ottó Orbán

Summary/Abstract: The personal recollections of the well-known English poet, Hungarian by birth, were written in English and published in The Hungarian Quarterly, Summer 2002. Into Hungarian it was translated for the Holmi by Mónika Mesterházi. Szirtes translated several poems of Ottó Orbán. Now, after the death of Orbán, he recollects their friendship and examines some characteristic features of Orbán's poetry.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 1258-1260
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Hungarian