Excerpt from Selections From Poems of Alexander Petofi Lexander petchdfi may be regarded as among A the most remarkable manifestations of literary activity the world has ever known. His short life was one long acted romance and _his name has become a spell with which to conjure his whole race. He adds another to the long list of poets born to unhappiness and hardship, yet by mere force of intellect winning his way to a high rank among his contemporaries. The following translations were made by me a num ber of years ago at a time when I was studying the Magyar language and had a much better acquaint ance with it than I to-day possess. Distrusting my present very slender knowledge of that powerful tongue, I have carefully compared them with the work of other translators in French, German and Italian, and offer them in the belief that they present a correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.