Author:Josef Svatopluk Machar
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| ←Author Index: Ma | Josef Svatopluk Machar (1864–1942) |
| Czech poet, prosaist, essayist and politician, using also pseudonyms Jan Svatopluk Machar, Josef Jan Machar, Antonín Rousek and Leo Leonhardi. |
Works[edit]
- Magdalen, 1893; translation by Leo Wiener, 1916 (originally a verse novel, translation in prose)
- The Jail, 1918; translation by Paul Selver, 1921
Short stories[edit]
- Sonia, 1901, translated by Paul Selver in 1919.
- Theories of Heroism, 1888, translated by Šárka B. Hrbková in 1920
Poetry[edit]
- 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.)
Works about Machar[edit]
- "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)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1926.
The author died in 1942, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.