Árkádia Somogyban: Horváth Ádám verse Csokonai sírkövéről

Abstract

The paper analyses a poem entitled the Tomb of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz. Th e work was published anonymously, but the poem was written by Ádám Pálóczi Horváth (1760–1820), a close friend of Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805) and is an under-analyzed poetic commentary on the early cult of Csokonai. The paper analyses an unknown text variant from Horváth Pálóczi’s collection of poems. The poem is linked to the 1806 Arcadia trial, surrounding Csokonai’s tomb in Debrecen. It is a commentary on the controversy from the point of view of a friend, and thus an important element of the cult of Csokonai from a Debrecen perspective. It designates a local memorial site and lists the places, the persons and the events that were significant for Csokonai during his stay in Somogy County.