Summary
Vlatko Pavletić: 100 poets of the literature of the Yugoslav peoples
For a long time there has been a need for a book that will objectively and expertly selectively show the richness and diversity of the literature of all the Yugoslav peoples, not integratively, but in parallel sections by value, from the beginnings of our literatures until today. The latest, third volume in the "100" library dedicated to the literature of the Yugoslav peoples brings - in the original or in translation - the best poems of our poets, which are arranged chronologically, but also classified into coherent generational and national units, so that the reader actually gets several smaller anthologies.
Staying within the framework outlined in this way, the compiler this time bypassed the achievements of poets belonging to nationalities, as is clear and emphasized by the title of this book. We say "books", because it is not just an anthology. 100 poets also contains more than two hundred pages of text that can be read separately as a critical-essay and encyclopedic review of poets and poetic tendencies, as a chronological account of the development of poetry in our region from the 16th century to the present day. This makes this work really specific, which will serve everyone who is in any way interested in poets and information about them or in their top poetic achievements.
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