Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: The Hungarian poet János Csokits,

who has died aged 83, will always be better known as Ted Hughes's co-translator of another 20th-century Hungarian poet, János Pilinszky. In this, he is reminiscent of Edward Fitzgerald, a poet whose own verse is largely forgotten, but who lives in literary memory as the ingenious translator of Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát.

from The Guardian: János Csokits obituary

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