ЛИРСКИ ГОВОР ЉУБОМИРА СИМИЋА
LYRIST LJUBOMIR SIMIĆ – FORGOTTEN POET BY THE LATE 19TH CENTURY OF THE SOUTHEAST YUGOSLAVIA

Summary/Abstract: Serbian literary historiography in previous research has prevented the poet Ljubomir Simić from creating in the area of southeastern Serbia at the end of the 19th century. He was born in Knjaževac on March 4, 1880, studied in Niš, he began his studies in forestry at Eberswald near Berlin in Germany, where he was seriously ill with tuberculosis, and died on august 4, 1900, immediately upon his return to Niš. He published a significant number of lyric poems, in the then literary period, and most of them in Niš’s Gradina, as well as in magazines Iskra, Nova Iskra, Zvezda, Golubica. All the aforementioned poetic texts written in the spirit of parnasso-symbolic orientation, quite in the poetic consensus of the then «militaryism» in serbian literature on the transition from the epoch of realism to the modern. After Simić’s premature death, the editorial board of Gradina, headed by Jeremija Živanović, published a selection from poetry Ljubomir Simić in the book entitled Pesme (1901). After that, poet Ljubomir Simic is mostly forgotten and almost his name and work are not mentioned in serbian literary historiography. Our attention is focused on the interpretation of thematic-motive, stylistic-poetic and rhetorical aspects of the lyricist Ljubomir Simić. In the final part of his work, he was also pointed to his role in the constitution of poetic modernism in serbian literature, especially given the fact that he was one of the rare poets of this generation who came from the territory of southeastern Serbia.

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