Josef Václav Sládek
Josef Václav Sládek (27 October 1845 in Zbiroh – 28 June 1912 in Zbiroh)[1] was a Czech poet, journalist and translator, a member of the literary group Lumírovci, and a pioneer of children's poetry in Czech lands.[2]
Life
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In 1865, he graduated at the Academic Gymnasium in Prague.[1] In 1867, he came to be suspected by the Austro-Hungarian police of supporting the Czech opposition movement against the monarchy.[1] In 1868 he moved to United States,[3] where he spent two years working as a laborer. He was interested in the fate of indigenous peoples and black people. He described his American experience in a collection of poems (titled Poems) and in one prose work (American images). His stay in the USA influenced him significantly. Throughout the rest of his life he focused on translating Anglo-American literature. He translated 33 plays by William Shakespeare and other works by Burns, Longfellow, Harte, Byron, Coleridge etc.[4] A less well-known fact is that Sládek translated the Czech anthem Kde domov můj into English.[5][6] Sládek was a good friend of Antonín Dvořák and from 1897 to 1898 lived in Vysoká u Příbramě close to Dvořák. His poems were set to music by Karel Bendl and Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Básně (1875)
- Jiskry na moři (1880)
- Světlou stopou (1881)
- Na prahu ráje (1883)
- Ze života (1884)
- Sluncem a stínem (1887)
- Selské písně (1890)
- České znělky
- Starosvětské písničky (1891)
- Směska (1891)
- České písně (1892)
- V zimním slunci (1897)
- Nové selské písně
- Za soumraku (1907)
- Léthé a jiné básně (1908)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Menclová, Věra; Vaněk, Václav, eds. (2005). Slovník českých spisovatelů (in Czech). Prague: Libri. pp. 599–600. ISBN 80-7277-179-5.
- ^ "Josef Václav Sládek - LAROUSSE".
- ^ "Josef Václav Sládek: inspirace v Americe – Cestovatelské legendy a současní cestovatelé – cestování, poznávání, dobrodružství". Hedvabnastezka.cz. 19 August 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "Sládek, Josef Václav, *27.10.1845 – †28.6.1912, český básník, překladatel, žurnalista – CoJeCo.cz – Vaše encyklopedie". CoJeCo.cz. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ^ "St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, March 28, 1892, Image 2". 28 March 1892. p. 2.
- ^ "Lidove Noviny". Retrieved 9 December 2023 – via PressReader.
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