in April 1912. In 1914 he met the 20-year-old Berta Boncza, with whom he had been corresponding since 1911. In 1915 they married without her father's permission. In his poems he called her Csinszka. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Ady saw war approaching. Everyone he knew was enthusiastic about the war, and he was left alone with his fears and worries about the future. He published his last book of poetry in 1918. He was terminally ill when he wrote his last poem, "Üdvözlet a győzőnek" (Greetings to the victor). Syphilis had weakened his aorta, so that he might die at any moment from a massive haemorrhage. He was elected president of the Vörösmarty Academy, an organization of modern writers, but could not deliver his opening speech; he died in Budapest on 27 January 1919, and was buried in the city's Kerepesi Cemetery. Poetry At the beginning of the 20th century, Hungarian poets tried to follow the folksy style of Sándor Petőfi, but most lacked his vision and talent; the style did not renew itself. Ady was the first to break from this tradition into a modern style. Although he liked to identify as a lonely, misunderstood revolutionary, most of the poets of his generation supported him, and many imitated his style. His first two books of poetry did not show anything new; he was still under the influence of 19th-century poets such as Petőfi or János Vajda. The first elements of his own style appeared not in his poems but in his essays and other writings. Ady was undoubtedly influenced by the works of Baudelaire and Verlaine. He often used Symbolist techniques; his recurring themes are God, Hungarian identity, and the struggle for survival in modern society. Other themes are present only in certain periods of his life (money, life and death, Léda). Works Versek ("Poems", 1899) Még egyszer ("Once Again", 1903) Új versek ("New Poems", 1906) Vér és arany ("Blood and Gold", 1907) Az Illés szekerén ("On Elijah's Chariot", 1909) Szeretném, ha szeretnének ("I'd Love to Be Loved" 1910) A Minden-Titkok versei ("The Poems of All Secrets", 1911) A menekülő Élet ("The Fleeing Life", 1912) Margita élni akar ("Margita Wants to Live", 1912) A magunk szerelme ("Our Own Love", 1913) Ki látott engem? ("Who Have Seen Me?", 1914) A halottak élén ("Leading the Dead", 1918) Az utolsó hajók ("The Last Ships", 1923) Quotes "Talent