A poet

 

In Søndermarken Park in Copenhagen a statue of Danish writer and poet Adam Oehlenschläger look at the Copenhagen Zoo and Frederiksberg Palace, home to the Army Officer School. Adam Oehlenschläger (1779-1850) was the writer that introduced romanticism in Danish litterature and is best known for the poem Guldhornene and the national anthem Der er et yndigt land.

A Man with a Hat

Right by the Parliament in Budapest sits a man with a hat, looking lost and sad. This is Attila Jozsef, a Hungarian poet of the 20th Century. A sad figure he was, as he showed signs of schizophrenia and withdrew into his poetry. At the age of 32 he was crushed by a starting train while crawling through the railway tracks. Whether this was an accident or a suicide nobody knows.

And so I've found my native country, that soil the gravedigger will frame, where they who write the words above me do not for once misspell my name.
— Attila József, And so I've found my native country… (first stanza)

A poet

Outside the Church of St. Anne in Vilnius is this monument to the Lithuanian/Polish poet Adomas Mickevicius (Adam Mickiewicz in Polish). He was active in the struggle for independence from the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century, and is now considered one of the national poets of Poland and of Lithuania, both of whom consider him "their" poet. His national epic Pan Tadeusz, which was written in Polish, starts with:

Lithuania, my fatherland! You are like health;
How much you must be valued, will only discover
The one who has lost you.