The single most comprehensive
collection in English of
MODERN
HUNGARIAN
POETRY
Edited, and with an Introduction, by Miklos Vajda
Foreword by William Jay Smith
Hungary can well be called a country of poets,
for its literoture has always centered on poetry.
This unique anthology consists of
worl~s
by forty–
one outstanding contemporary Hungarian
poets, translated by some of the major
American and Oritish writers, among them
Robert Groves, Donald Davie, and Daniel Hoff–
man. Oiographical notes and photographs of
each of the forty-one contributors have been in–
cluded . "Most of the poems assembled here,"
writes William Joy Smith in his Foreword, "are of
a rare beauty in the original and deseNing of
the best life they can be given in English':
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