Zeyer, Julius
Zeyer, Julius
(yo͝o`lĭo͝os zā`ĕr, tsī`ər), 1841–1901, Czech writer. Restless, nostalgic, and mystical, Zeyer wrote ornate, almost decadent epic poetry based on ancient and medieval legends of many lands. His semiautobiographical novel Jan Maria Plojhar (1880) deals with the tragic nature of the artist. His dramas, including Raduz and Mahulena (1898, tr. 1923), are celebrated as lyric poetry but are theatrically unsuccessful.Bibliography
See study by R. Pynsent (1973).
Zeyer, Julius
Born Apr. 26, 1891, in Prague; died there Jan. 29, 1901. Czech poet.
Zeyer began to publish in the 1870’s. His best-known works are cycles of patriotic verses devoted to the legendary past of Czechoslovakia—Višegrad (1880) and The Arrival of the Czech (1886). Zeyer is the author of a number of plays and prose works. He was interested in Russian culture and visited Russia several times.
WORKS
Spisy, vols. 1–34. Prague, 1902–07.In Russian translation:
[Stikhotvoreniia.] In Antologiia cheshskoi poesii, vol. 2. Moscow, 1959.
REFERENCES
Fučik, J. Tři studie: B. Němcovă, K. Sabina, J. Zeyer. Prague, 1947.Ocherki istorii cheshskoi literalury XIX-XX vv. Moscow, 1963. (See name index.)