András Horvát Szkárosi (†after 1549)

One of the most talented Protestant poets. In the ten songs he wrote he built all the main demands of religious reform into literature. In addition, he used the priest-mocking phrases of goliardic poetry. The ten pieces are written in nine different strophe-structure. He preaches in the same style as prophets of the Old Testament and he mixed the mournful stylistic elements of the Bible in his unique-tone poems, by which he created entirely individual metaphors. He blew the trumpets of the judgement day into the ears of Hungarians: "Oh, Hungarian nation thou art both stubborn and unheeding" - he wrote. (On the mercy of God, 1546).

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