Janko Kráľ, a poet, a representative of the Romanticism period in Slovak literature. From dusk till dawn, the 22 years old student thus becomes the most popular Slovak poet of his era. In the right establishing language, Slovak, he was writing ballads the way the best poets of the big European nations were. Being a polyglot himself, Kráľ knew works by Shakespeare, Byron or Goethe. As a true romantic poet, he preferred extreme expressions of revolt, melancholy, challenges and catastrophes. On the other hand, his poems contain also the desire for spiritual change of the world through a collective national vision.
Janko Kráľ is being presented to foreign audiences by Ľubica Schmarcová of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, graphic designer and typographer Palo Bálik from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and John Minahane, who translated his poetry into English.
Janko Kral 150 death anniversary
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