Vörösmarty, Mihály (1800–1855)

Hungarian poet, dramatist, and critic. Vörösmarty was the most important of the Hungarian Romantics. He wrote an epic on the Magyars' occupation of Hungary in the 9th century, Zalán futása/The Flight of Zalan 1825. As a leading member of Károly Kisfaludy's Aurora group, the editor of the scholarly reviews Tudományos Gyüjtemény/Compendium of Learning and Athenaeum, and a founder of the Kisfaludy Society in 1836, he was a key figure in Hungarian literary life in the years before the 1848 revolution.

Vörösmarty was the author of the lyrical poems ‘Ábránd/Reverie’, ‘Puszta csárda/the Inn at Puszta’, and ‘Szózat/Appeal’. He also wrote the fairy-tale drama Csongor és Tünde 1831.