Weöres Sándor

Weöres Sándor (22 June 1913 – 22 January 1989) was a Hungarian poet and author. He translated Indian poet Jayadeva's poetry Gita Govinda from Sanskrit. He also translated [a348179]'s Venus and Adonis and Henry VIII, [a515778]'s The Waste Land, the nonsense poems by [a915714] and Lewis Carroll, the complete poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé. His translation of the Tao Te Ching continues to be the most widely read in Hungary.