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The Mácha-like lineage of Czech lyrical poetry
Křivánek, Vladimír
Mácha founded a tradition of deep meditative lyrical poetry in the New Czech literature. This poetry aspires towards transcendency and understands human existence as ambivalent, both beautiful and painful, stretched between the sensual and spiritual worlds, between the physical and supersubstantial, between heaven and Earth. Mácha's influence entered the poetry of his followers in various ways, initially via admiring poems dedicated to him. Such poems, often stating a particular programme, identify with Mácha-like gestures to a varying extent, and they present Mácha as the prototype of a modern poet. Mácha's work gradually revealed its miraculous inspirational potential in a series of works of poetry and it entered the verses of many Czech poets in all the layers of poetic form. The dark reflective poets with a tragic perception of life and pervaded by melancholy represent the main line of the Mácha-like lineage.

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