Karel Hynek Mácha

ame 

this is just such a beautiful poem. had to read it for school to study it with our professor and i don’t regret reading the assigned book for once at all. it caught me right at the beggining and didn’t let me go until the end. the maybe even over-the-top descriptions of nature and the lake and the sky. the tragic characters and story. the first intermezzo with the ghosts. i just adore this poem so so much. just read it, it’s short and so worth it tho idk how high quality the english translation is. 

As opposed to the other important 19th-century European poets, Macha's work has been largely ignored in English translation. The present volume, the sole to exist in English, provides the original Czech text in parallel."

May

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