Árpád Tóth was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 poet and translator.

Tóth went to Gymnasium (high school) in Debrecen

Debrecen

Debrecen , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar county.- Name :...

 and then studied German and Hungarian at the University of Budapest. In 1907, he poems began to appear in the papers A Hét and Vasárnapi Újság and after 1908 in Nyugat

Nyugat

Nyugat , was the most influential Hungarian literary journal in the first half of the 20th century. Writers and poets from that era are referred to as "1st/2nd/3rd generation of the NYUGAT"....

. In 1911, he became a theater critic for the paper Debreceni Nagy Újság.

In 1913, he became a tutor to a wealthy family and received a little income from writing but still lived in poverty. Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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 led him to rest at the Svedlér Sanitorium in the Tatra Mountains

Tatra Mountains

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During the period of the revolutionary government after World War I

World War I

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, he became secretary of the Vörösmarty Academy, but lost the position and couldn't find new work after the government's fall. He remained poor and sick with tuberculosis for the rest of his life and even considered suicide at one point – although he did join the staff of Az Est in 1921.

In Debrecen

Debrecen

Debrecen , is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. Debrecen is the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar county.- Name :...

 is a Gymnasium named of him.

Work

He was a major lyric poet and contributed to the Nyugat School. His core themes focused on fleeting happiness and resignation.

He translated Milton

John Milton

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, Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

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, Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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, Keats, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gautier

Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic....

, Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

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, and Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

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