But for now, she dropped music in favor of visual arts. Orczy was 15 when she began to learn English, the language she would eventually make a small fortune writing in. Part of the landed nobility, Orczy’s family fled a peasant uprising when she was three, landing first in Budapest and then, after her composer and conductor father sent her to study music in both Brussels and Paris, finally settling in London. It’s the birthday of Baroness Emmuska Orczy, born Baroness Emma Magdalena Rosália Mária Josefa Borbára Orczy at her family’s estate in Hungary (1865). They probably are no wiser than a cricket’s chirrup. To all those million verses in the world I’ve added just a few. He wrote, in a poem called “And Now, Goodby”: Having survived Nazi occupation, the Stalinist regime and Communist oppression, Seifert continued writing - and collecting cactus plants - until his death in 1986, just three years before the Velvet Revolution brought democracy to his country. Seifert continued to fall in and out of the Party’s favor, alternately praised and censored, but the majority of his 30 volumes focused more on everyday life, nature, and love, than on politics. Two years later, a collection of his poetry that expressed his disillusionment with Communism was censured for being a “misuse of poetry,” a bitter irony, given his insistence that poetry shouldn’t have an explicit use at all. He continued as both a journalist and poet, until the Party gained control of the country in 1948 and forbade him from practicing journalism. These two passions of his existed harmoniously for several years, until Seifert was expelled from the Communist Party for protesting its growing Bolshevik sympathies. As a poet, he was also a leading representative of the Poetist Movement, the belief that art should have no function or serve no purpose other than art itself, and worked on the staff of several literary journals. He was a devoted Communist when the party first formed, after WWI, in the newly established Czechoslovakia, and he worked at a number of communist newspapers and magazines. Seifert left school to become a journalist and a poet he quickly excelled at both. “This shows how democratic the conditions were in our family,” Seifert later wrote in his memoirs. Seifert came from a working-class family for their wedding gifts, his mother, a Catholic, gave his father, a Social Democrat, a communist medallion. It’s the birthday of poet Jaroslav Seifert, the only Czech writer ever to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, born in a suburb of Prague in 1901. TWA from Friday, Septem“ Clara: In the Post Office ” by Linda Hasselstrom from Roadkill.
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