Szabó Lőrinc

Szabó Lőrinc (1900 to 1957) was one of the major Hungarian poets of the twentieth century, and a prolific literary translator. Számadó records him among György Rauscher’s sitters (/bibliography#szamado-2019, pp. 17-33).

Who he was

Szabó Lőrinc made his name with a taut, intellectually probing lyric poetry, in collections such as Te meg a világ and the late sonnet cycle A huszonhatodik év. He was also one of the great Hungarian verse translators, rendering Shakespeare, Baudelaire, and Coleridge among many others.

The connection to Rauscher

Szabó Lőrinc is named among the writers Rauscher portrayed, part of the literary circle that runs through his Hungarian years (see /biography/hungarian-years).

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