VÖRÖSMARTY AND THE ROMANTIC FRAGMENT
VÖRÖSMARTY AND THE ROMANTIC FRAGMENT
Author(s): Mihály Szegedy-MaszákSubject(s): Cultural history, Hungarian Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Sándor Petõfi; Mihály Vörösmarty; Hungarian Romanticism; Hungarian literature;
Summary/Abstract: Although Sándor Petõfi (1823 - 1849) may be internationally more famous than Mihály Vörösmarty (1800 - 1855), it is possible to argue that the older author can be regarded as the most representative poet of Hungarian Romanticism, who in his best lyrics has a force that not even Petõfi could attain. Petõfi's descriptive and humorous poems could be characterized as representing a Biedermeier reaction against the sublimity of the most important works of the older poet, but it would be a distortion to deny that some of Petõfi's finest lyrics the cycle of epigrams called Felhõk (Clouds, 1845-46) or the longer poem Tündérálom (Fairy Dream, 1846) show the decisive influence of Vörösmarty's Romanticism. In any case, Vörösmarty is an author who cannot be neglected in any international history of Romantic poetry.
- Issue Year: 15/2001
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 3-10
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
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