Anthology of Czech Literature 9780231878333

Table of contents :
PREFACE
CONTENTS
NEO-CLASSICISM AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CZECH REVIVAL 1774–1815
PRE-ROMANTICISM 1815–30
ROMANTICISM 1830–59
PRE-REALISM 1860–79
NATIONALISM AND COSMOPOLITANISM TOWARD THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 1879–94
REALISM 1694–1914
SYMBOLISM AND DECADENCE 1895–1914
CZECH LITERATURE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
NOTES

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ANTHOLOGY CZECH

OF

LITERATURE

COLUMBIA SLAVIC STUDIES A SERIES OF T H E D E P A R T M E N T OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES, C O L U M B I A

Ernest

J . Simmons,

GENERAL EDITOR

UNIVERSITY

ANTHOLOGY OF

CZECH LITERATURE EDITED

WILLIAM

BY

E. H A R K I N S

KING'S C R O W N COLUMBIA

UNIVERSITY,

1

953

PRESS NEW

YORK

The preparation of this work for publication has been made possible by a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation to the Department of Slavic Languages of Columbia University.

Copyright 1953 by William E. Harklns Published In Great Britain, Canada, India, and Pakistan by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press London, Toronto, Bombay, and Karachi Typed by Bozena M. Nosco Manufactured In the United States of America

King's Crown Press is a subsidiary Imprint of Columbia University Press established for the purpose of making certain scholarly material available at minimum cost. Toward that end, the publishers have adopted every reasonable economy except such as would interfere with a legible format. The work Is presented substantially as submitted by the author, without the usual editorial and typographical attention of Columbia University Press.

PREFACE

THIS anthology of Czech literature grows out of a longfelt need for reading materials for courses In Czech literature and language. It waB believed desirable, at the same time, to make the book a comprehensive, if brief, anthology of modern Czech artistic literature which would serve the needs of the general reader, whether of Czech background or not. Such an anthology is almost a complete innovation; even in Czechoslovakia there have been few such attempts, and it is almost impossible to buy such collections at the present time. For these reasons the literary quality of the anthology has been stressed somewhat ..more than its adaptability for use in language courses. The second consideration has by no means been neglected, however, and a good part of the materials ar? simple enough to be read during the second year of language study. Such, for example, are the texts by Srben, Havlicek, Nemcovd, Halek, Neruda, Dyk, and