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23-612: Endre Ady lived in the Castle during World War I, when it was owned by the family of his wife Berta Boncza. The Octavian Goga Memorial House is located in Ciucea. According to the census from 2002 there were 1,745 people living in this commune; of this population, 99.23% were ethnic Romanians , 0.61% ethnic Hungarians , and 0.09% ethnic Roma . At the 2021 census , the population of Ciucea had decreased to 1,293; of those, 92.58% were Romanians. This Cluj County location article

46-672: A girl named Ilona, died at an early age. The author and poet Mariska Ady (1888-1977) was a niece of Endre Ady. Between 1892 and 1896, Ady attended the Calvinist College in Zilah (today Zalău , Romania). On 22 March 1896, he published his first poem in the Zilah newspaper Szilágy . He later studied law at the Reformed College in Debrecen . After dropping out, he became a journalist. He published his first poems in

69-519: A position he held until his death. In 1937, he was diagnosed as having laryngeal cancer . He died in Budapest in 1941. Babits is best known for his lyric poetry , influenced by classical and English forms. He also wrote essays and translated much from English , French , German , Greek , Italian , and Latin . There is a museum in Szekszárd showcasing Mihály Babits's work and life, as well as

92-902: A satire", he wrote, referring to the unveiling of the Wesselényi Monument . Working as a journalist and spending time with like-minded people broadened his horizons. He published a new collection of poems in 1903, but remained relatively unknown. The turning point came in August 1903 when he met Adél Brüll Diósy, a wealthy, married Jewish woman who was living in Paris at the time but was visiting her home in Nagyvárad. Léda (as he called her in his poems) became his muse; his love for her and their visit to Paris, helped him to develop his talent. He visited Paris seven times between 1904 and 1911. When he returned after his first visit (which lasted for

115-580: A trip to Italy in the same year, which made him interested in Dante ; he made several other trips in later years. This experience led him to translate Dante's Divine Comedy ( Hell , 1913, Purgatory , 1920, and Paradise , 1923). Briefly after the Hungarian Revolution of 1919 he became a Professor of Foreign Literature and modern Hungarian literature at the University of Budapest, but

138-437: A volume called Versek (Poems) in 1899. He soon grew tired of Debrecen (the town later became a symbol of backwardness in his poetry) and moved to Nagyvárad (today Oradea , Romania), a city with a rich cultural life. In articles written in 1902 for the local newspaper Nagyváradi Napló , Ady paid close attention to the social features of his time. " Wesselényi and a poor peasant! Perhaps unwittingly, master Fadrusz has carved

161-425: A year), he moved to Budapest and began work for the newspaper Budapesti Napló (Budapest Journal) , where he published more than 500 articles and plenty of poems. Being interested in politics, Ady became a member of the radical group Huszadik Század (Twentieth Century, or possibly Twentieth Brigade). In 1906 he published his third book of poetry, Új versek (New Poems) , which is a landmark in literature and marks

184-455: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Endre Ady Endre Ady (Hungarian: diósadi Ady András Endre, archaic English: Andrew Ady ; 22 November 1877 – 27 January 1919) was a turn-of-the-century Hungarian poet and journalist. Regarded by many as the greatest Hungarian poet of the 20th century, he was noted for his steadfast belief in social progress and development and for his poetry's exploration of fundamental questions of

207-509: Is set in a dystopian future. In 1921 married Ilona Tanner  [ hu ] , who later published poetry under the name Sophie Török . Two years later he moved to Esztergom . In 1927 he became a member of the "Kisfaludy Társaság" ( Kisfaludy Society ) and in the same year he was made a trustee of the Baumgarten Prize . He became the editor-in-chief of Nyugat in 1929 (sharing the role until 1933 with Zsigmond Móricz ),

230-542: The 80th anniversary his birth. A bust of Ady sculpted by Geza Csorba was installed in the courtyard of Innis College in Toronto in 1984. Mih%C3%A1ly Babits Mihály Babits ( Hungarian: [ˈmihaːj ˈbɒbit͡ʃ] ; 26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological problems. Babits

253-412: The birth of modern Hungarian poetry. His fourth collection, Vér és arany (Blood and Gold) , brought him real success and critical acclaim. In 1906 Ady decided to leave the country and went to Paris again. In 1907, he had to quit his job at Budapesti Napló . In 1908, the first issue of a new periodical called Nyugat (The West) published a poem and an essay by him. He worked for this periodical for

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276-422: The faults of Western countries too. From 1909 he often needed sanitarium treatment for his health, which was undermined by syphilis . The political situation became critical: the workers were protesting against the government, and Ady saw a revolution approaching. His personal life was also in crisis; his affair with Léda became more and more burdensome. As Ady become a prominent poet, Léda lost her leading role in

299-496: The future. He published his last book of poetry in 1918. He was terminally ill when he wrote his last poem, "Üdvözlet a győzőnek" (Greetings to the victor). Syphilis had weakened his aorta, so that he might die at any moment from a massive haemorrhage. He was elected president of the Vörösmarty Academy, an organization of modern writers, but could not deliver his opening speech; he died in Budapest on 27 January 1919, and

322-569: The modern European experience: love, temporality, faith, individuality, and patriotism . Ady was born in Érmindszent , Szilágy County (part of Austria-Hungary at the time; now a village in Căuaș commune, Satu Mare County , Romania, called Adyfalva in Hungarian and Ady Endre in Romanian). He belonged to an impoverished Calvinist noble family. Endre was the second of three children. The eldest,

345-489: The relationship. He broke up with her in April 1912. In 1914, he met the 20-year-old Berta Boncza, with whom he had been corresponding since 1911. In 1915 they married without her father's permission. In his poems he called her "Csinszka". After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Ady saw war approaching. Everyone he knew was enthusiastic about the war, and he was left alone with his fears and worries about

368-435: The rest of his life; from 1912 he was one of the editors. Also in 1908 in Nagyvárad, he was one of the founders of a literary circle called A Holnap (Tomorrow). The group published an anthology of poems of Ady and others including Mihály Babits , Gyula Juhász and Béla Balázs . The poems of this anthology met with disapproval and incomprehension. Many people attacked the anthology for containing erotic poems. In addition, Ady

391-399: Was an editor and leading figure of Nyugat (West), an important Hungarian literary journal. He also wrote political articles for other journals criticizing the political situation of the time. He did not like the nationalism of the leading parties, but also criticized the anti-nationalism of the social democrats; he knew how far Hungary was behind the more developed countries, but clearly saw

414-563: Was born in Szekszárd . He studied at the University of Budapest from 1901 to 1905, where he met Dezső Kosztolányi and Gyula Juhász . He worked to become a teacher and taught at schools in Baja (1905–06), Szeged (1906–08), Fogaras (1908–11), Újpest (1911), and Budapest (1912–18). His reputation for his poems in the literary life started in 1908. He made

437-507: Was buried in the city's Kerepesi Cemetery . At the beginning of the 20th century, Hungarian poets tried to follow the folksy style of Sándor Petőfi , but most lacked his vision and talent; the style did not renew itself. Ady was the first to break from this tradition into a modern style. Although he liked to identify as a lonely, misunderstood revolutionary, most of the poets of his generation supported him, and many imitated his style. His first two books of poetry did not show anything new; he

460-413: Was criticized for his unpatriotic feelings in a poem in which he emphasized the contrast between the rich cultural life he longed for and the cruel realities of the Hungarian peasant world. Ady disliked his name being linked with other poets, who he thought were jumping on his bandwagon. He wrote a short story, "The duk-duk affair", in which he mocked those who were following the trend he was setting. Ady

483-402: Was issued 15 March 1947 by Hungary in a series of Hungarian freedom-fighters, and from 1969 to 1990 he appeared on the 500 forint banknotes. Another commemorative stamp was issued 27 January 1969 on the 50th anniversary of his death, and another on 22 November 1977 on his birth centenary, along with a mini-sheet. Romania issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honor on 5 December 1957, on

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506-474: Was soon removed for his pacifism after the revolutionary government fell. In 1911, he became a staff writer on the magazine Nyugat . Babits' 1918 novel The Nightmare (also known as King's Stork ) is a science fiction novel about a split personality influenced by Freudian psychology . His 1933 novel Pilot Elza or the Perfect Society (Hungarian: Elza pilóta, vagy a tökéletes társadalom)

529-532: Was still under the influence of 19th-century poets such as Petőfi or János Vajda . The first elements of his own style appeared not in his poems but in his essays and other writings. Ady was undoubtedly influenced by the works of Baudelaire and Verlaine . He often used Symbolist techniques ; his recurring themes are God, Hungarian identity, and the struggle for survival in modern society. Other themes are present only in certain periods of his life (money, life and death, Léda). A postage stamp bearing Ady's likeness

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