Petofi (1823- 1849), formerly known as Peter Fei, was a great revolutionary poet in Hungary and the founder of Hungarian national literature. He was known as "a thorny rose growing on fertile black soil soaked with slave blood" and died at the age of 26. Mr. Lu Xun commented that petofi was a national poet who "sang for love and died for his country", and the greatest feature of his poems was "freedom of speech and fierce birth".
Main contribution
Petofi's contribution is mainly in poetry creation, especially lyric poetry. In addition to writing a lot of revolutionary poems in his life, he also wrote a variety of political theories, plays, novels and essays. He wrote about 65,438+0,000 lyric poems and 8 narrative poems, the most famous of which are The Warrior of Janos (translated as Brave John) and The Apostle, which greatly influenced the development of Hungarian literature.