Vörösmarty and the Romantic fragment

Szegedy-Maszák, Mihály (2001) Vörösmarty and the Romantic fragment. Hungarian Studies, 15 (1). pp. 3-10. ISSN 0236-6568

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Abstract

Although Sándor Petőfi (1823–1849) may be internationally more famous than Mihály Vörösmarty (1800–1855), it is possible to argue that the older author can be regarded as the most representative poet of Hungarian Romanticism, who in his best lyrics has a force that not even Petőfi could attain. Petőfi's descriptive and humorous poems could be characterized as representing a Biedermeier reaction against the sublimity of the most important works of the older poet, but it would be a distortion to deny that some of Petőfi's finest lyrics  the cycle of epigrams called Felhők (Clouds, 1845–46) or the longer poem Tündérálom (Fairy Dream, 1846)  show the decisive influence of Vörösmarty's Romanticism. In any case, Vörösmarty is an author who cannot be neglected in any international history of Romantic poetry.

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