Zoltán Fónod: Árpád Tőzsér’s beginnings and first literature period

The author introduces the first period of one of the most important poets of the Hungarian literature in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. It describes the historical and social events that influenced the starting of Tőzsér’s poetry (Hungarians living in Czechoslovakia were abridged of their rights after the war), then the author analyses his books of poetry. He states that on Tőzsér’s poetry development Gy8la Illyés, Attila József and László Nagy had a very great influence, although Tőzsér in spite of this influence created an individual poetry form, in which folk literature elements melt into a harmonic whole with the most modern poetry efforts.