Sándor Reményik (30 August 1890, in

Kolozsvár Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

– 24 October 1941, in Kolozsvár) was a Hungarian poet.

Life

Sándor Reményik was born on 30 August 1890 in

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(now

Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...

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) to a wealthy architect. After he finished high school in Kolozsvár, he began studying to become a lawyer until an eye disease ended his aspirations.

Works

* Mistletoe (1918) * Until death (1918) * Only like that (1920) * Verses of a border castle (1921) * Whispers of wild water (1921) * An idea comes (1925) * The bells of Atlantis ring (1927) * Front of the lamp (1927) * Instead of bread (1927) * Flower in ruins (1935) * High tension (1940) * Complete verses (1941) * Completed (1942), contained posthumously unpublished verses * Complete verses (1944) * Snow cross (2005)

References

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Some of his worksmp3
* * 1890 births 1941 deaths Writers from Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Lutherans Hungarian male poets 20th-century Hungarian poets 20th-century Hungarian male writers 20th-century Lutherans {{Hungary-poet-stub