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Irodalomtörténet - Sípos Lajos: Az értékek múlandósága – Babits Mihály és a 19. század magyar irodalma
LAJOS SIPOS THE TRANSIENCY OF VALUES MIHÁLY BABITS AND THE HUNGARIAN LITERATURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY Mihály Babits, who hailed his father with a simple poem at the age of 8 and edited a student’s magazine at Pécs at the time, would not mention Károly Kisfaludy and Sándor Petőfi too much, who were considered to be among the dominant poets of the 19th century, and while he did pay tribute to Reviczky and József Kiss, his immediate predecessors, but only with polite evasiveness. As an adult, he mentioned Vörösmarty and Arany repeatedly, stating that he had learnt all their lines by heart. He wrote two treatises about Vörösmarty, in 1935 it was him who commemorated Vörösmarty on the celebrations at Székesfehérvár, and Babits alluded to him in several of his essays about other authors. He wrote systematic notes for every work of Arany. He also wanted to write his doctor’s thesis about Arany, and evoked him with his sonnet To János Arany and a sonnet cycle consisting of three other sonnets. Babits summoned both poets in his great work The History of European Literature, drawing paralels between them and other great authors of the era in terms of genres and beliefs. Out of the authors of the Reform Era, he wote an „anniversary” article about Kölcsey in 1938, and a seemingly similar one about Madách for the centenary of his birth. His opinion changed about two authors, Petőfi and Madách.Babits evoked Petőfi in 1923 in analytic and praising treatise and poem, in strong opposition to official commemorations of the era, which were spectacular and repeating the earlier clichés. He called the main work of Madách, while secretly arguing with Kosztolányi, „the only truly phylosophical poem of the world literature”, connecting it in some form to the stream of world literature no fewer than seven times. 228
