This study gives an insight into the currently ongoing preparatory
works of the critical edition of the third volume of poems written
between 1911 and 1915 by Mihály Babits (1883-1941, poet, writer,
literary historian, literary translator, and editor), an important figure
of twentieth-century Hungarian literature. Babits’s career change, i.e.,
his move to Újpest (near to the Hungarian capital) in 1911, is also a
particularly important time period for Babits philology that can help
to date the verse fragment [Ó művész mennyit kell vesződnöd... (Oh
artist, how much you must bother...)
