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Mihály Vörösmarty
Vörösmarty
also: Vörösmarty, Vörösmarty Mihály
Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1855), Hungary's greatest Romantic poet before Petőfi; his anguished love lyrics and patriotic epics were the dominant model for Madách's generation, and his epigraphs appear in the 'Song of Sorrow' and 'Candida II' cycles.
Reading notes
- First Attempts (Juvenilia) §66 Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1855), Hungary's greatest Romantic poet before Petőfi; his anguished love lyrics and patriotic epics were the dominant model for Madách's entire literary generation.
- Studies and Articles §3.1.2 Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1855), Hungary's greatest Romantic poet. Madách quotes him in the Védegylet speech to call for national unity. The verse quoted ('perhaps will knit together / what fate has not woven into one') is from Vörösmarty's patriotic verse; his name alone carried immense prestige in the Reform Era.