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Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav

2. 2. 1849
Vyšný Kubín
—  8. 11. 1921
Dolný Kubín
Pseudonym:
Hviezdoslav, Jozef Zbranský
Genre:
poetry, theatre & drama & film

Complete list of works

poetry (lyrical collections and cycles):
The Poetic First Flowers of Jozef Zbránsky (Básnické prviesienky Jozefa Zbránskeho, 1868), Northern Lights (Severne žiare, 1870), Hearth and Campfire (Krb a vatra, 1880), Sonnets (Sonety, 1886), Offshoots I-III (Letorosty I-III, 1885 - 1895), Walks in the Spring (Prechádzky jarom, 1898), Plaints I-IV (Stesky I-IV, 1903 -1907), Reverberations I-III (Dozvuky I-III, 1909 - 1911), The Sonnets of Blood (Krvavé sonety, 1914), In an Autumn Midnight (V jesennú polnoc, 1916 - 1920). The collection of poems, Nenogista roze, published in 2011 in Latvian contains also selected poems by him. 

epic poems:
Agar (1883), The Gamekeeper's Wife (Hájnikova žena, 1884 - 1886), Bútora and Čútora (Bútora a Čútora, 1888), Rachel (1891), Ežo Vlkolinský (1891), Midday Meal (Poludienok, 1892), Supper (Večera, 1892), Cain (Kain, 1893), Christmas (Vianoce, 1897), Gábor Vlkolinský (1897 - 1899), The Dream of Solomon (Sen Šalamúnov, 1901), Shorter Epics (Kratšia epika, 1920), Two Visits (Dve návštevy, 1920)

drama:
Revenge (Pomsta, 1869), The Stepfather (Otčim, 1871), Clouds (Oblaky, 1879), Herod and Herodias (Herodes a Herodias, 1909)

collected works and selections:
The Collected Poetical Works of Hviezdosla, volumes 1 to 15 (Zobrané spisy básnické Hviezdoslava, zv. 1-15, 1892 - 1931), Biblical Poems (Básne biblické, 1912), The Writings of P.O. Hviezdoslav in 12 volumes (Spisy P.O. Hviezdoslava v 12 zväzkoch, 1951-1957), Poetic First Fruits (Basnicke prvotiny I-II, 1955-1956), Poetic Maturing I-II (Básnicke zrenie I-II, 1957-1958), Works I-IV (Dielo I-IV, 1973, second edition 1997-1998)

translations by the author:
With concentration and a well thought-out literary-cultural conception he devoted himself to translation in the last twenty years of his life. Collected posthumously into volumes 12 to 15 of The Collected Poetical Works of Hviezdoslav; these contain the works of, and selections from, the following authors: Shakespeare (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream), Goethe (Faust I, Iphigenia on Tauris, Ballads), Schiller (a selection of lyric poems), Pushkin (Boris Godunov, The Caucasian Captive, The Gypsies, Rusalka and others), Lermontov (A Song about the Emperor Ivan Vasilievitch, the Young Guard and the Doughty Merchant Kalashnikov, The Demon), Mickiewicz (Crimean Sonnets and others), Slowacki (In Switzerland and others), Petőfi (a selection of his lyrics), Arany (lyric poems and ballads), Madách (The Tragedy of Man)

works translated into foreign languages:
Book editions of various works have been published in Czech, Russian, Hungarian, German, French, English, Georgian and Ukrainian. He is also present in foreign anthologies of Slovak literature (Polish, Russian and others)