On the finding of Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav's poetic manuscripts
Vol.20,No.2(2017)
Abstract
Keywords:
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav; rodinná pozostalosť Alberta Pražáka; neznáme rukopisy P. O. Hviezdoslava; československé literárne vzťahy
Pages:
49–57
The paper explores the fortunes of the unarchived family inheritance of Albert Pražák (1880–1956), the Czech literary historian who initiated Czech literary research into the creations of the most accomplished Slovak poet P. O. Hviezdoslav (1849–1921). Namely, in his memorial publication S Hviezdoslavom (1955). Having delivered a comprehensive set of Slovak archive materials related to Hviezdoslav to Slovakia in the 1950s, Pražák retained, among others, some of Hviezdoslav's early poems for further study. This explains why Pražák's personal inheritance has now produced a few dozens of Hviezdoslav's unknown Hungarian and Slovak poems, written at the turn of 1870s. The dominant element in his lyrics are mainly natural and love motifs reflecting an authentic experience, and poems that reveal the young poet's creative skills. A successive publication and interpretation of Hviezdoslav's juvenilia can hardly change the assessment of his poetry, nevertheless it may facilitate deeper understanding of his artistic formation.
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav; rodinná pozostalosť Alberta Pražáka; neznáme rukopisy P. O. Hviezdoslava; československé literárne vzťahy
49–57
