Summary
Jovan Hranilović: Selected Poems
Hranilović, Jovan, Croatian writer (Kričke kraj Drniša, 18. XII. 1855 – Novi Sad, Vojvodina, 5. VIII. 1924). He attended the seminary in Zagreb in 1874–76. and Vienna in 1876–78, where he also listened to lectures on literary theory and aesthetics. Then he was a Greek Catholic priest in Žumberek and Bačka. In the beginning, he was a right-winger, then he joined the South Slavic idea. He was the editor of Obzor (1898) and Vienca (1899–1900). He wrote poems (Žumberak Elegies, 1886; Selected Poems, 1893), short stories, literary criticism and polemics. In the literary conflicts between the "old" and the "young" he was the most prominent representative of the "old", representing realistic poetics and the didactic and patriotic purpose of literature, and in his criticisms and polemics he fiercely attacked the naturalists and the program of modernity and larpurartism of the "young".
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