Zeyer, Julius
Zeyer, Julius
yo͝o´lĭo͝os zā´ĕr, tsī´ər [key], 1841–1901, Czech writer. Restless, nostalgic, and mystical, Zeyer wrote ornate, almost decadent epic poetry based on ancient and medieval legends of many lands. His semiautobiographical novelJan Maria Plojhar(1880) deals with the tragic nature of the artist. His dramas, includingRaduz and Mahulena(1898, tr. 1923), are celebrated as lyric poetry but are theatrically unsuccessful.
See study by R. Pynsent (1973).
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