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See also:PETOFI, See also:ALEXANDER (1823—1849) , Hungarian lyric poet, was See also:born at Kis-KOrOsO, Pest See also:county, on New See also:Year's See also:Day, 1823. The See also:family received its diploma of See also:nobility from the See also:emperor See also:Leopold in 1688, but the ultra-patriotic Alexander See also:early changed the old family name, Petrovics, which pointed to a Croatian origin, into. the purely Magyar See also:form of Petofi. The lad's early days were spent at Felegyhaz and Szabadszallas, the most Hungarian parts of See also:Hungary, where he got most of his early See also:education, including a See also:good grounding in Latin. See also:German he learnt subsequently at Pesth, .and See also:French he taught himself. He began See also:writing verses in his twelfth year, while a student at the Asz6d gymnasium, where he also displayed a strong predilection for the See also:stage, to the disgust of his rigorous See also:father, who formally disowned his son, early in 1839, for some trifling peccadillo, and whose tyrannical See also:temper became downright furious when a See also:series of misfortunes ruined him utterly in 1840. For the next three years Petofi led the wretched See also:life of a strolling player, except for a brief See also:interval when, to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape See also:starvation, he enlisted as a See also:common soldier in an See also:infantry See also:regiment. During the greater See also:part of 1842 we find him a student at the Calvinist See also:College at Papa, where he made the acquaintance of See also:young J6kai, and wrote the poem " Boroz6," which the See also:great critic See also:Bajza at once inserted in the leading See also:literary See also:review, the See also:Athenaeum (May 22, 1842). In See also:November of the same year the restless poet quitted Papa to join another travelling troupe, playing on one occasion the See also:Fool in See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Lear, and after wandering all over Hungary and suffering incredible hardships, finally settled down at Pesth (1844), where for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he supported himself by all sorts of literary hack-See also:work. Nevertheless, in the midst of his worst privations he had read voraciously, and was at this time profoundly influenced by the dominant Romanticism of the day; while, through See also:Tieck, he learnt to know and value the See also:works of See also:Shakespeare. His first See also:volume of See also:original poems was published in 1844 by the Society Nemzeti Kor, through the See also:influence of the poet See also:Vorosmarty, when every publisher had refused his MS., and the seventy-five florins which he got for it had become a See also:matter of life or See also:death to him. He now became a See also:regular contributor to the leading papers of Pesth, and was reconciled to his parents, whom he practically supported for the See also:rest of their lives out of his literary earnings. His position, if not exactly brilliant, was now at least secure. The little volume published by the Nemzeti Kor was followed by the See also:parody, A Helyseg Kalepdcsa (1844); the romantic epic Janos Vitez (1844); Ciprislombok Etelke SIrjdrOl, a collection of passionate elegies over his lost love, Etelke Csap6 (1845); Uti Jegyzetek, an See also:imitation of See also:Heine's Reisebilder (1845); Szerelem Gyongyei (1845); Felhok (1846); Szerelme es hdzassoiiga (1846), and many other volumes. The first edition of his coliected poems appeared in 1847. Petofi was not yet twenty-five, and, despite the protests of the classicists, who regarded him with See also:cold dislike, the best heads in Hungary, poets like Vorosmarty and critics like Szemere, already paid him the See also:homage due to the See also:prince of Magyar lyrical poets. The great public was enthusiastic on the same See also:side, and posterity, too, has placed him among the immortals. Petofi is as See also:simple and genuine a poet of nature as See also:Wordsworth or See also:Christian See also:Winther, and his erotics, inspired throughout by a See also:noble See also:idealism, have all See also:Byron's force and fervour, though it is perhaps in his See also:martial songs that Petoh's essentially passionate and defiant See also:genius asserts itself most triumphantly. On the 8th of See also:September 1847 Petofi married Julia Szendrey, who See also:bore him a son. When the revolutionary See also:war See also:broke out, he espoused the tenets of the extreme democratic See also:faction with a See also:heat and recklessness which estranged many of his See also:friends. He took an active part in the Transylvanian See also:campaigns of the heroic See also:Bem; See also:rose by sheer valour to the See also:rank of See also:major; was slain at the See also:battle of See also:Segesvar (See also:July 31, 1849), and his See also:body, which was never recovered, is supposed to have been buried in the common See also:grave of the fallen honveds in the See also:churchyard of Feheregyhaz. The first See also:complete edition of Petofi's poems appeared in 1874. The best See also:critical edition is that of Haras, 1894. There are numerous indifferent German See also:translations.
See Ferenczi, Petofi Eletrajza; See also:Fischer, Petofi's Leben and Werke (R. N.
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