Author:Josef Svatopluk Machar

Josef Svatopluk Machar
(1864–1942)

Josef Svatopluk Machar

Works

• Magdalen, 1893; translation by Leo Wiener, 1916 (originally a verse novel, translation in prose)
• The Jail, 1918; translation by Paul Selver, 1921

Short stories

• Sonia, 1901, translated by Paul Selver in 1919.
• Theories of Heroism, 1888, translated by Šárka B. Hrbková in 1920

Poetry

• Confiteor (Confiteor, 1887–1892)
  • Brooding (Duma)
  • Autumn Causerie, IV (Podzimní causerie)
  • Song in Autumn (Píseň v podzimku)
  • A Fantastic Ballad (Fantastická balada)
  • Summer Causerie, III (Letní causerie)

• Golgotha (Golgatha, 1901)
  • On Golgotha (Na Golgathě)
  • The Spiral, or On the Decline of a Century (Spirala čili na sklonku století)

• Four Books of Sonnets (Čtyři knihy sonetů, 1903)
  • October Sonnet (Sonet říjnový)
  • A Sonnet of Life (Sonet o životě)
  • A Sonnet of the Past (Sonet o minulosti)
  • To My Mother (Matce)
  • Autumn Sonnet (***)

• In the Glow of a Hellenic Sun (V záři hellenského slunce, 1906)
  • A sun flower (Slunečnice)
  • The Messenger (Posel)

• Poison from Judea (Jed z Judey, 1906)
  • The land of Palestine (Krajina palestinská)
  • T. Pomponius Atticus
  • Near Jerusalem (U Jerusalema)
  • Tiberius
  • Akte (Akté)

• The Barbarians (Barbaři, 1911)
  • Avar inroad (Zájezd avarský)
  • Three rings (Tři prsteny)

• The Pagan Flames (Pohanské plameny, 1911)
  • Pasquino on the death of Pope Hadrian VI. (Pasquino na smrt papeže Hadriana VI.)

• The Apostles (Apoštolové, 1911)
  • A. Dürer painting the Saviour's head (A. Dürer malující hlavu spasitelovu)
  • Shakespeare
  • Last Will and Testament (Testament)
  • Cromwell at the corpse of Charles I. (Cromwell u mrtvoly Karla I.)

• Other
  • Sick Humanity (Balada nemocniční, 1905)

Works about Machar

• "Machar, Jan Svatopluk" in Anthology of Modern Slavonic Literature in Prose and Verse (1919)
• "Joseph Svatopluk Machar" by Šárka B. Hrbková in Czechoslovak Stories (1920)
• "Introduction" by Paul Selver in The Jail (1921)
• "Josef Svatopluk Machar" by Roderick Aldrich Ginsburg in The Soul Of A Century (1943)