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After the deaths of Kósyk's only son, Juro, (at age 24 after a horse-riding accident) in 1915 and his wife Anna in 1929, Kósyk became increasingly isolated. He eventually married his housekeeper Wilma Filter in 1938. Wilma left Albion a year after Kósyk's death taking his papers with him; these have
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Mato Kósyk's work is predominantly lyrical, and includes very little prose. His poems are concentrated around the
Christian faith, which Kósyk generally connected to nature in general and Lusatia in particular. The latter is the equivalent of the homeland, of the
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in 1867, with the intention of studying theology. He left the gymnasium before graduation in 1873, bringing his study ambitions to a temporary end. Instead, he started working for a
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wanted to publish an anthology of Kósyk poems, which appeared in 1893. Kosyk would continue to have poems published in the
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