Intimism ( sl, intimizem) was a poetic movement that emerged in Slovenia in 1945, after the end of World War II. Its main themes were love, disappointment and suffering and the projection of poet's inner feelings onto nature. Its beginner was

Ivan Minatti Ivan Minatti (22 March 1924 – 9 June 2012) was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor. He started writing poetry before World War II, but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets. He is one of th ...

, who was followed by Lojze Krakar. The climax of Intimism was achieved in 1953 with a collection of poetry titled ''

Poems of the Four Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in a ...

'' (), co-authored by Janez Menart,

Ciril Zlobec Ciril Zlobec (4 July 1925 – 24 August 2018) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He is best remembered for his poems, publishing several volumes of poetry in his lifetime. In 1990 he became a member of the P ...

, Kajetan Kovič and Tone Pavček. For all of them, it was their first collection. A female counterpart to the four was Ada Škerl. A collection of her poetry, published in 1949 under the title '' Shadow in the Heart'' (), was unacceptable in the post-war

People's Republic of Slovenia The Socialist Republic of Slovenia ( sl, Socialistična republika Slovenija, sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Slovenija, Социјалистичка Република Словенија), commonly referred to as Sociali ...

. Contrary to the collective revolutionary worldview demanded at the time, it was subjective and didn't express trust in the future. Škerl was politically persecuted due to its publication.

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