BREZINA, Otokar. — Pseudonym of Václav Jebarý. Czech poet, b. near Tábor in 1868, d. at Jaroměřice in 1929.
He wrote: *Le lontananze misteriose* (*Tajemné dálky*), *Alba in occidente* (*Svitání na západě*), *I venti dai poli* (*Větry od pólů*), *I costruttori del tempio* (*Stavitelé chrámu*), *Le mani* (*Ruce*), *Musica delle sorgenti* (*Hudba pramenů*).
B. turns his gaze toward mystical distances. Painfully aware that his soul is unsatisfied, that he weeps in uncertainty and full of doubts, in his own torment he turns his gaze in search of the sorrows of others; thus he finds an anchor of solidarity and raises his hands, sustained by an infinite number of human beings, toward the Eternal and the Infinite, finally finding the peace that in his isolation he could not attain. His poetry, with approximate and rather questionable formulas, has been described as metaphysical and symbolist. He is, without doubt, the greatest mystical poet of modern Czech literature.