Poetry Codex

Hungarian

Ferenc Kazinczy

1759–1831

Hungarian author, poet, translator and language reformer who led the renewal of Hungarian literature around 1800.

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

Poems (12)

  1. Her Image
  2. Fable: The Badger and the Squirrel
  3. Cupid on a Lion
  4. Sonnet (My little bark of life is gently speeding)
  5. Sonnet (O! I have passed a day of ecstacy!)
  6. Separation
  7. The Frogs
  8. The Beloved
  9. The Epigram
  10. Versification
  11. To Minni
  12. To My Joy-Giver

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