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Jan Neruda

Czech poet

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contribution to Czech literature

  • Jan Hus
    In Czech literature: The 18th and 19th centuries

    …the poet and short-story writer Jan Neruda, known for his sardonic sketches in Povídky malostranské (1878; “Tales of Little Quarter”). Other notable figures of the Máj group were the novelist Karolina Světlá and the poet Vítězslav Hálek.

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  • Czech Republic
    In Czech Republic: Literature of the Czech Republic

    Jan Neruda, in his poetry and short stories, domesticated literary sophistication within a familiar Prague framework. Toward the end of the 19th century, the historical novels of Alois Jirásek began to claim a wide readership, while poetry moved through Parnassian, Symbolist, and Decadent phases.

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