Sen o českých březích: první anglické antologie české poezie v 19. století jako cyklické mystifikace
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Tomáš Jajtner
- Source
- Ostrava Journal of English Philology, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 61-77 (2023)
- Subject
- English language
PE1-3729
English literature
PR1-9680
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1803-8174
2571-0257
47053445
The article analyses the nature of the interest of English authors in Slavic (and specifically Czech) culture between the end of the 18th century to 1850. This period saw the publication of two translated anthologies of Czech poetry: Bowring’s Cheskian Anthology (1832) and Wratislaw’s Lyra Czecho‑slovanská. Bohemian Poems, Ancient and Modern (1849). The structure, form of translation and the reception of both anthologies demonstrate not only the mystification nature of the ‘Czech canon’ presented in them, but also reflect the deep internal instability of the values of Czech culture in the heyday of the Czech National Revival and in the period soon after.