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"Confiteor," consist largely of sentimental lyric pieces which recall Byron, Heine and de Musset. In "Tristium Vindobona" and "Satiricon" he employs verse effectively for political satire, with strong radical and anti-clerical tendencies. His prose-works (in particular, the book "Rome") also contain much strongly polemical matter which has gained him numerous adherents, on the one hand, aroused great opposition on the other, and caused frequent anxiety to the Austrian censor. Among the Czechs themselves he has made many enemies by his liberal interpretation of the term "patriotism." Machar's most lasting poetical work is probably the series beginning with the volume "Golgotha," in which, following Vrchlický (who again was influenced by Victor Hugo's "Légende des Siècles") he set out to depict the most important events and personalities of history. The later volumes of the cycle however, show signs of haste, and the poetical style, never very subtle, is apt to become dry and mechanical.117, 251
