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JAN NERUDA
JAN NERUDA _(1839-1891) is one of the foremost figures of Bohemian / literature. He has tried his skill at every sort of writing, but it is / as poet that he is greatest, although it is not easy to pass stable / judgment upon such a many-sided, changing accomplishment._ / _He belongs to a certain period of Bohemian renaissance which is / sometimes spoken of as the movement of the sixties, a movement fruitful / and far reaching. He may be said to have introduced into his tongue the / feuilleton, the arabesque and the short story of form and finish._ / _In verse the work which he initiated so brilliantly has been carried on / by Yaroslav Vrchlický and Svatopluk Čech, who are both world poets not / much below the level of Pushkin and Mickiewicz._ / _Among the most famous of his verse productions are "Cosmic Songs," / "Ballades and Romances," "Simple Motives. " In addition he has published / "Flowers From a Graveyard," "Parisian Pictures," "Brief and Briefer / Studies," "Francesca of Rimini" (a play), and two comedies. We include / two of his short stories of contemporary life._