Inebriate of Dawn. Selected Poems

dc.contributor.authorKosztolányi Dezső
dc.contributor.translatorRidland, John M.
dc.contributor.translatorCzipott, Peter V.
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-17T10:37:29Z
dc.date.available2026-09-17T10:37:29Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionDezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936) enjoyed a stellar literary career in Budapest, authoring novels, short stories, verse, literary translations, and journalism until oral cancer cut short his life. His poetry remains much less familiar to the anglophone world than his novels, particularly Anna Édes and Skylark. No book-length selection of his poems has existed to date in English. The present volume fills this major void in the international representation of modern Hungarian poetry. The late John Ridland (1933–2020) began his collaboration in translation of Hungarian verse with Peter Czipott (1954– ) in 2002, the pair translating many of Kosztolányi’s works in the subsequent years. The present volume was nearly complete at the time of Ridland’s passing. The selection of poems in this volume aims to present Kosztolányi’s poetry through the length of his career, illustrating the evolution of the form and style of his verse. It additionally seeks to reflect the importance of certain recurring themes in his oeuvre, particularly his acute awareness of death’s presence. Ridland and Czipott have always approached the verse translator’s task seeking to achieve a balance between fidelity to the original poem’s semantic and affective content and to the salient aspects of its form, always with the goal of yielding an English poem of impact and appeal.en
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dc.format.page161 p.
dc.identifier.citationDezső Kosztolányi: Inebriate of Dawn. Selected Poems. Translated by John M. Ridland – Peter V. Czipott. Budapest-Paris, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, L’Harmattan Publishing, 2025. 168 p.
dc.identifier.isbn978-2-336-47982-8
dc.identifier.issn2063-787X
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14834/14842
dc.languageangol
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherKároli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
dc.publisherL'Harmattan Publishing
dc.rightsszabadon hozzáférhető
dc.subjectműfordítás, vers, magyar irodalom, költészet
dc.subject.mabBölcsészettudományok::Irodalom- és kultúratudományok
dc.titleInebriate of Dawn. Selected Poemsen
dc.title.seriesKároli könyvek. Műfordítás, forráshu
dc.title.seriesCollection Károli. Primary sources and translationsen
dc.typeBook
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