Ady Endre

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Endre Ady (Érmindszent - November 22, 1877; Budapest - January 27, 1919) was a Hungarian poet, one of the most important poets not only in the 20th century but in Hungarian literature in general. Ady was born in Érmindszent, Transylvania (part of the Austria-Hungary at the time, now a village in Romania called Adyfalva in Hungarian and Ady Endre in Romanian, located in Nagyvárad, Bihor County). He belonged to an impoverished noble family. Endre was the elder of two children. He attended a Protestant school in Zilah (today Zalău, Romania), then studied law in Debrecen. After finishing his studies he became a journalist, and published his first poems in a volume called Versek (Poems) in 1899. He soon became tired of Debrecen (the town later became the symbol of backwardness in his poetry) and moved to Nagyvárad (today Oradea, Romania), a city with rich cultural life. Working as a journalist and spending time with like-minded people broadened his horizons. He published a new collection of poems in 1903, but remained relatively unknown. The turning point came in August 1903 when he met Adél Brüll (Mrs. Diósi), a rich married woman who was living in Paris but visited her home in Nagyvárad. Léda (as he called her in his poems) became his Muse; his love for her and his visit to Paris, where he followed her, helped him to develop his talent. He visited Paris seven times between 1904 and 1911. When he came back after his first visit (which lasted for a year), he began to work for th

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