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B ezina, Otakar |
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(ô´täkär brzh ´z nä) (KEY) , 1868–1929, Czech lyric poet, leader of the Czech symbolists, whose original name was Václav Jebavý. The first collection of his poetry, Tajemné dálky [mysterious distances], appeared in 1895. It was followed by four more volumes of mystic, highly imaginative verse, and by one of essays, Hudba pramenu [the music of the springs] (1903). Bezina is considered one of the greatest of Czech poets. | 1 | | See translations of his works by P. Selver in Otakar Bezina (1921). | 2 |
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