Education
Weöres attended the University of Pécs, studying law first before moving on to geography and history.
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Sandor Weores
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Born in Szombathely, Weöres was brought up in the nearby village of Csönge. His first poems appeared when he was nineteen, being published in the influential journal Nyugat ("West") through the acceptance of its editor, the poet Mihály Babits. He ultimately received a doctorate in philosophy and aesthetics.
His doctoral dissertation The Birth of the Poem was published in 1939.
lieutenant was in 1937 that he made the first of his travels abroad, going first to Manila for a Eucharistic Congress and then visiting Vietnam and India. During World World War II Weöres was drafted for compulsory labor, but was not sent to the front.
After the end of the war, he returned to Csönge and briefly lived as a farmer. In 1948 Weöres again travelled abroad, residing in Italy until 1949.
In 1951 he settled in Budapest where he would reside for the rest of his life.
Many of Weöres" poems have been set to music Composer Peter Eötvös has composed two pieces, Atlantis and Ima, with texts from Weöres" poem Néma zene ("Silent Music"). In 1980 the Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Bódy adapted the poem Psyché to make the epic feature Nárcisz és Psyché.
Politics
The imposition of Stalinism in Hungary after 1948 silenced Weöres and until 1964 little could be published.
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