esperanto_story1-5, Exercise 3: Original writing and the Budapest school

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Why original writing mattered more: a language that only translates other people's works can be seen as a code. A language in which poets, novelists and essayists create new work shows that it can carry thought, emotion and style of its own, and that it can develop traditions. Reputation among critics depends on that.

What the Budapest school shows: a group of writers around Kálmán Kalocsay and the journal Literatura Mondo wrote poetry directly in Esperanto in the 1920s and 1930s, polishing its metres and vocabulary. They also worked on anthologies and guides to Esperanto verse, which gave the language a canon. Many were Hungarian, so the school illustrates that the language's literary centre was not in the country of its founder or of its biggest group of learners.

Limits: the readership was small and international, and critics outside the movement often did not read the works.

Care: use "regarded as", "often named" for judgments about quality, and give the source of the judgment.