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 William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and Henry VIII, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the nonsense poems by Edward Lear (2) 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.