Ady Endre

Ady Endre

1877–1919

Endre Ady (1877–1919) was a Hungarian poet and journalist, born in Érmindszent, and the leading figure of the modernist review Nyugat. His collection Új versek (1906) is regarded as the beginning of modern Hungarian poetry.

Ady wrote of love, money, God, death and the fate of Hungary in a bold, symbolic style. His poems to “Léda” (Adél Brüll) and later to his wife Csinszka, as well as “Góg és Magóg fia vagyok én”, “A Tisza-parton” and “Őrizem a szemed”, are among the best-known poems in Hungarian.

Best-known poems

All poems (22)

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