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TOMPA, MIHALY [MICHAEL] (1817–1868)

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TOMPA, MIHALY [See also:MICHAEL] (1817–1868) , Hungarian lyric poet, was See also:born in 1817 at Rima-Szombat, in the See also:county of Gomor, his See also:father being See also:village bootmaker. He studied See also:law and See also:theology in See also:Saros-Patak, and subsequently at See also:Budapest; and, after many vicissitudes, at the See also:age of See also:thirty he accepted the See also:post of See also:Protestant See also:minister in Beje, a small village in his native county, whence, in two years, he removed to Kelemer, and four years later to Hanva, in the county of Borsod, where he remained till his See also:death in 1868. At the age of four-and-twenty Tompa published his first poems in the See also:Athenaeum, which soon procured for him a high reputation. His first See also:volume, Nepregek is Nepmonddk (" Folk-Legends and Folk-Tales "), in 1846, met with See also:great success, and the same may be said of the first volume of his " Poems " in 1847. In 1848 he took See also:part in the See also:War of See also:Independence, acting as See also:field See also:chaplain to the See also:volunteers of his county and seeing several battles; but the unfortunate See also:close of that heroic struggle silenced his poetic vein for a considerable See also:time, and when in 1852 and 1853 he gave vent to his patriotic grief in some masterly allegories on the See also:state of oppressed See also:Hungary, he was twice arrested by the See also:Austrian authorities. After being released he published his Virdgregek (" Legends of See also:Flowers "), a collection of poems showing great See also:imagination and love of nature. Soon after this he became oppressed with See also:melancholy and abandoned this See also:branch of See also:poetry. He published three volumes of sermons, " which," says his biographer, See also:Charles Szasz, Protestant See also:bishop of Budapest, " are among the best in Hungarian literature, and will favourably compare with those of See also:Robertson, See also:Monod or See also:Parker." His collected poetical See also:works were published at Budapest in 1870, and again in 1885.

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