János Arany
Hungarian poet, journalist, writer and translator (1817-1882)
János Arany (2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian writer and poet. He is often said to be the "Shakespeare of ballads" – he wrote more than 40 ballads which have been translated into over 50 languages, as well as the Toldi trilogy.
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Quotes
edit- Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség.
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
- As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
External links
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- The Bards of Wales as translated by Watson Kirkconnell
- The Bards of Wales as translated by Bernard Adams
- Epics of the Hungarian Plain
- The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt
- Interview: A contemporary translator, Ádám Nádasdy, compares his own translations of Shakespeare with the translations made by János Arany
- Find-A-Grave profile for János Arany