What The Letters Of Two Poets Taught Me About Writing

Hundreds of years later, the struggle is just as real, but so are the benefits and the message…

Manuscript of Petőfi’s “National Song” (Nemzeti Dal, HU), photo by author

Over the past few months, my good friend Andi and I have been reading the published correspondence of Arany János and Petőfi Sándor. Both great poets and writers of the 1800s without whom Hungarian literature would…