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Otakar Brezina[O´tAkAr brzhe´zinA] Pronunciation Key, 1868–1929, Czech lyric poet, leader of the Czech symbolists, whose original name was VAclav JebavY. The first collection of his poetry, TajemnE dAlky [mysterious distances], appeared in 1895. It was followed by four more volumes of mystic, highly imaginative verse, and by one of essays, Hudba pramenu [the music of the springs] (1903). Brezina is considered one of the greatest of Czech poets.
See translations of his works by P. Selver in Otakar Brezina (1921).
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