Mihály Csokonai (full name Mihály Csokonai Vitéz; in Hungarian Csokonai Mihály or Csokonai Vitéz Mihály) () (17 November 1773 – 28 January 1805)
[The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 12 -PAGE: 392, published in 1894] was a
Hungarian poet
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, a leading figure in the Hungarian literary revival of the
Enlightenment
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.
Having been educated in
Debrecen
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, where he was born, Csokonai was appointed while still very young to the professorship of poetry there. Shortly thereafter he was deprived of the post on account of the immorality of his conduct.
The remaining twelve years of his short life were passed in almost constant wretchedness, and he died in his native town, in his mother's house, when only thirty-one years of age.
Csokonai was a genial and original poet, with something of the lyrical fire of
Sándor Petőfi
Sándor Petőfi ( []; né Petrovics; ; ; 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849) was a Hungarian poet and Classical Liberalism, liberal revolutionary. He is considered Hungary's national poet, and was one of the key figures of the Hungari ...
, and wrote a mock-heroic poem called ''Dorottya'' or the ''Triumph of the Ladies at the Carnival'', two or three comedies or farces, and a number of love-poems. Most of his works have been published by Schedel (1844–1847).
Famous works
* ''Kostancinápoly'' (1794)
* ''Dorottya'' (1798)
* ''A Magánossághoz'' (1798)
* ''Szegény Zsuzsi, a táborozáskor'' (1802)
* ''Tartózkodó kérelem'' (1803)
* ''A tihanyi Ekhóhoz'' (1803)
* ''A Reményhez'' (1803)
See also
References
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External links
A free download of a book of Csokonai's poems
1773 births
1805 deaths
Hungarian male poets
People from Debrecen
18th-century Hungarian poets
18th-century Hungarian male writers
People from the Habsburg monarchy
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