''Anthology of Modern Serbian Lyric'' () is an anthology published in 1911 by
Matica hrvatska
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in
Zagreb
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,
Austria-Hungary
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(modern day
Croatia
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).
The foreword for this book was written by
Bogdan Popović
Bogdan Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Богдан Поповић; 20 December 1863 – 7 November 1944) was one of the most important literary critics and university professors in Serbia and later Yugoslavia and an academic. He was the brother of ...
. It was the first attempt to create a literary canon of the most significant poems down the ages. The book contains poems by authors including
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
Jovan Jovanović Zmaj ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Јовановић Змаj, pronounced ; 24 November 1833 – 1 June 1904) was a Serbian poet, translator and physician.
Jovanović worked as a physician; he wrote in many poetry genres, including Lo ...
,
Laza Kostić
Lazar Kostić ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар Костић; 12 February 1841 – 27 November 1910) was a Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, aesthetics, aesthetician, journalist, publicist, and politician who is considered to be one of the greatest minds ...
,
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (; 1748 – 31 October 1830) was the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro from 1784 to 1830 and Exarch (legate) of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. He was the most popular spiritual and military leader from the Petro ...
,
Vojislav Ilić
Vojislav Ilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Илић; 20 April 1860 – 2 February 1894) was a Serbian poet, known for his finely chiseled verse. His poetry exemplifies a classic example of modern Serbian language and features the stand ...
,
Jovan Grčić Milenko
Jovan Grčić Milenko ( sr-cyr, Јован Грчић Миленко; 15 November 1846 – 25 May 1875) was a Serbs, Serbian poet, writer and a physician. The freshness of his lyrical poetry places him in the succession of Branko Radičević and ...
,
Aleksa Šantić
Aleksa Šantić ( sr-Cyrl, Алекса Шантић, (); 27 May 1868 – 2 February 1924) was a Herzegovinian Serb poet and writer from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of his hometown Mostar and Herzegovi ...
,
Jovan Dučić
Jovan Dučić ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Дучић, ; 15 February 1872 – 7 April 1943) was a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serb poet-diplomat and academic.
He is one of the most influential Serbian lyricists and Modernist poetry, modernist poe ...
,
Milan Rakić
Milan Rakić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Ракић; 18 September 1876 – 30 June 1938) was a Serbian poet-diplomat and academic.
He focused on dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse, which allowed him to achieve beautiful rhythm and rh ...
,
Sima Pandurović
Sima Pandurović ( sr-cyr, Сима Пандуровић; 14 April 1883 – 27 August 1960) was a Serbian poet, part of the Symbolist movement in European poetry at the time. He died in Belgrade on 27 August 1960.
Works
;Selected works
*, 190 ...
and
Veljko Petrović
Veljko Petrović ( sr-cyr, Вељко Петровић, ; c. 1780 – 1813), known simply as Hajduk Veljko (Хајдук Вељко, ǎjduːk v̞ɛ̌ːʎkɔ, was one of the '' vojvodas'' (military commanders) of the Serbian Revolutionary force ...
. The book has undergone several editions, including translations into
Slovene in 1965.
In 2011,
Srpska književna zadruga
The Serbian Literary Guild or Serbian Literary Cooperative (in Serbian, , SKZ) is Serbia's oldest writers' organization and the second-oldest still existing publishing house after Matica srpska.
History
It was founded in Belgrade on 29 April 189 ...
, a member of the
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
The Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language ( sr-cyr, Одбор за стандардизацију српског језика , translit=Odbor za standardizaciju srpskog jezika) is a linguistic institute in Serbia, Montenegro and Repub ...
, published the 100th anniversary edition.
References
1911 poetry books
1911 anthologies
Serbian poetry
Serbian books
Poetry anthologies
20th century in Zagreb
History of the Serbs of Croatia
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