Hungarian

Ferenc Faludi

1704–1779


Hungarian Jesuit poet, born at Güssing, sometimes called the father of the new Hungarian lyric.

His poems here are read in John Bowring's English versions from Poetry of the Magyars (1830), an early English anthology of Hungarian verse.

  1. Dangers of Love
  2. The Gay-Plumed Bird
  3. The False Maid
  4. The Answer

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