The last great poet of Hungarian nationalism, János Arany
János Arany was born 207 years ago, on March 2, 1817, in Nagyszalontán, the central figure of 19th century Hungarian poetry, the unsurpassed master of the Hungarian language. He came from an impoverished hajdu family. He studied in Debrecen, then became a teacher, painted, and became an actor in 1836. From 1840 he was a … Read more