János Vajda
Hungarian poet
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János Vajda was a Hungarian poet who lived in the 19th century. He is noted for bridging the gap between the romantic populism of Sándor Petőfi and the decadence of the fin-de-siècle period. Vajda was described as a gloomy visionary with a talent for both self-pity and self-aggrandizement, and he was an important innovator in the use of metaphor and poetic imagery.1
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