Zeyer, Julius (1841–1901)

Czech poet, novelist, and dramatist. His epic verse includes adaptations of Czech
mythology and of the Charlemagne legends. In prose, his masterpiece is the novel
Jan Maria Plojhar 1891. Zeyer was sharply critical of the repressive bourgeois
society of his day.
Three Legends of the Crucifix 1895 expounds his religious and
aesthetic ideals.

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