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The epic of Sandor Petofi.(Literature)
SANDOR PETOFI, who lived for only twenty-six years, has the longest entry by far in the Oxford History of Hungarian Literature. According to the author of that book, in Hungary Petofi enjoys a place like that reserved for Shakespeare in English-speaking countries.
"Petofi was ... the most famous, most popular hero in the history of the country, a romantic hero who perished in 1849 on the battlefield," writes George Szirtes, himself a poet, in the foreword to Petofi's John the Valiant (translated by John Ridland, published by Hesperus Press of London, $30 in Australia).
"Scratch any true Hungarians and they will bleed Petofi ..." So begins John Ridland in ...
- Waters of Leith: A Sang at Last.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ridland, John September 1, 2007 700+ words
...smiled back but never returned to the leafy track Along the wavering Waters of Leith my tears rain down on the waters beneath The Waters of Leith the Waters of Leith to say fare well to the Waters of Leith John Ridland Edinburgh, June 2, 2003
- ALAN STEPHENS, RENOWNED POET, SCHOLAR, DIES IN SANTA BARBARA
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 29, 2009 700+ words
...those whom he taught, and who in turn will inspire generations into the future." Stephens was recalled by former colleague John Ridland, a poet and emeritus professor of English at UCSB, as "unique in every way -- as a colleague, as a writer, and as a...
- Dreams of Glory: Poems Starring Girls.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Vasilakis, Nancy March 1, 1996 700+ words
...from Sandra Liatsos's "Ice Skating." A good number of poets are represented -- Lillian Morrison, Gertrude Stein, John Ridland, and May Swenson among them -- and Isabel Joshlin Glaser has included a few verses of her own. The poems are brief and...
- Late October Hexameters.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Radnoti, Miklos Ridland, John Czipott, Paul V. May 1, 2008 700+ words
...we drop off, two sharing the one concern. And until dreams catch us, the autumn night's damp banner audibly, darkly, snaps. Elesd-Nagytelekmajor, 1942, September 28-November 14 Translated by John Ridland and Paul V. Czipott