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CSOKONAI, MIHALY VITEZ (1773-1805)

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CSOKONAI, MIHALY VITEZ (1773-1805)

CSOKONAI, MIHALY VITEZ (1773-1805) , Hungarian poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

DEBRECZEN

Debreczen in 1773. Having been educated in his native See also:

TOWN

town, he was appointed while still very See also:

young to the professorship of See also:

POETRY

poetry there; but soon after he was deprived of the See also:

POST

post on See also:

account of the immorality of his conduct. The remaining twelve years of his See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

LIFE

life were passed in almost See also:

CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant wretchedness, and he died in his native town, and in his. See also:

MOTHER

mother's See also:

house, when only See also:

THIRTY

thirty-one years of See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age. Csokonai was a genial and See also:

ORIGINAL

original poet with something of the lyrical See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire of See also:

PETOFI, ALEXANDER (1823—1849)

Petofi, and wrote a See also:

MOCK

mock-heroic poem called Dorottya or the See also:

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

Triumph of the Ladies at the See also:

CARNIVAL (Med. Lat. carnelevarium, from taro, tarns, flesh, and levare, to lighten or put aside; the derivation from valere, to say farewell, is unsupported)

Carnival, two or three comedies or farces, and a number of love-poems. Most of his See also:

WORKS

works have been published, with a life, by Schedel (1844-1847).

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