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Vraz, Stanko

Born June 30, 1810, in Cerovats; died May 24, 1851, in Zagreb. Slovene and Croatian poet and critic.

Vraz was born into a peasant family. He studied at the University of Graz. He was a prominent figure in the Illyrian movement, a representative of romanticism, and the founder of progressive Croatian literary criticism. From 1842 to 1850, with L. Vukotinović and D. Rakovac, he published the journal Kolo. Vraz propagated the ideas of national renaissance and the necessity of independent national literary development in a common literary language. He was the author of several collections of both intimate and civic lyrics, Djulabija (1840), Voices From the Groves of Žeravinske (1841), and Guslas and Tambourines (1845). Vraz also translated Western European and Slavic poets and compiled the collection Illyrian Folk Songs (1839).

WORKS

Pjesnička djela, vols. 1-3. Zagreb, 1953-55.
In Russian translation:
In Poeziia zapadnykh i iuzhnykh slavian. Leningrad, 1955. Page 408.
Poety lugoslavii XIX-XX vv . Moscow, 1963. Pages 34-37.

REFERENCES

Leshchilovskaia, I. I. Illirizm. Moscow, 1968.
Barac, A. Hrvatska knjizevnost, vol. 1. Zagreb, 1954.

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References in periodicals archive

Their topics include framing the bones of Dante and Petrarch: literary cults and scientific discourses, Stanko Vraz and the missing saints of the Illyrian movement, Jacint Verdaguer: a Catalan cultural saint, Ilia Chavchavadze: Georgia's cultural saint and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church, and from the culture of saints to the saints of culture: the saint and the writer between life and work.

Great Immortality; Studies on European Cultural Sainthood

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