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Vasko Popa | | Birth Date: |
29 June 1922 | | Death Date: |
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Biography of Vasko Popa
2,977 words, approx. 10 pages
 Vasko Popa is a poet of towering stature in contemporary Yugoslav literature. His poetic achievement—eight slim volumes of verse written over a period of thirty-eight years—has received extensive critical acclaim both in his native land and...
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Biography of Vasko Popa
2,748 words, approx. 9 pages
 Vasko Popa is a poet of towering stature in contemporary Yugoslav literature. His poetic achievement--eight slim volumes of verse written over a period of thirty-eight years--has received extensive critical acclaim both in his native land and beyond,...


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Vasko Popa Information
694 words, approx. 2 pages
 Vasko Popa (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Васко Попа) (June 29, 1922 - January 5, 1991) was a Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of The Faculty of Philosophy at the Belgrade University. He...


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 World Literature Today
The Quest for Roots: The Poetry of Vasko Popa. (book reviews)
06/22/1994: 339 words, approx. 1 pages When Vasko Popa died in 1991, he was already recognized as one of the greatest and most original Serbian poets, a writer whose name was also considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although of mixed Serbian and Romanian parentage, he considered himself...
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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Vasa D. Mihailovich
1,699 words, approx. 6 pages
 In the struggle against traditional verse-making, [Popa's] poetry, like that of Miodrag Pavlović, played a prominent role and contributed decisively to the victory of the modernists. Since [his first book of verse, Kora], he has gained steadily in stature and popularity; today he is considered one of the best, if not the best, of contemporary Yugoslav poets. (p. 24) Popa's world displays unique features. From the very first he showed a predilection for objects, for specifics rather than...
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Critical Essay by John Bayley
401 words, approx. 1 pages
 Popa's poetry [in his Collected Poems] is highly formalized. But it is not formalization in the senses of imagism or surrealism, though Popa … was finding his style at a time when more or less precise and intelligent versions of surrealism were a common fashion in European poetry. Cycles of poems link up in Popa's work to form both a human and a legendary landscape, the one included in the other…. [History] and myth seep naturally into the poet's apprehension of the presen...
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Critical Essay by Vasa D. Mihailovich
395 words, approx. 1 pages
 The poems in [Vučja so, Živo meso, and Kuća nasred druma] were written during the last quarter-century, although most of them are of very recent vintage. As has been the case throughout his poetic career, Popa always writes with a well-conceived plan of cycles, so that new poems easily fit into the already existing entities or form a new cycle. At the same time, seldom is a new book of Popa's poems totally new, either thematically or formally. Some poems in these books are relate...


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