Sándor Weöres

LÁSZLÓ KÉR Y A BELATED LETTER TO IVÁN BOLDIZSÁR Dear Iván, We have not seen much of eaeh other lately, as you always seem to have countless things to do. I have never been able to understand how you are able to devote yourself to so many things, how you have been able to find the time...

INTRODUCTION Until quite recently, foreign literature, particularly foreign poetry, has not fared well in Britain. I discovered this for myself back in 1965 when Penguin brought me in to beef up their series of Modern European Poets in Translation. Although this series published some of the best...

MAGYAR is an agglutinative Finno-Ugrian language, distantly related to Finnish, Estonian, Lappish, Ostiak and Vogul. Transplanted bodily to the Carpathian basin from Asia in a mass migration on horseback nearly eleven centuries ago, it has survived being overlaid by the Latin culture of the Román...