PROFESORU DR. JOŽI SKOKU DOBRIŠA CESARIĆ I GUSTAV KRKLEC POČETAK PROLJEĆA - CRNI KOS
To Joza Skok, Ph. D. DOBRISA CESARIC AND GUSTAV KRKLEC THE BEGINNING OF SPRING - THE BLACK BIRD

Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to Joza Skok, Ph. D., a full professor at University of Zagreb, whose academic work and accomplishments in literary studies represent an outstanding contribution to contemporary Croatian literature. My article deals with the poetics of two Crotian poets, Dobrisa Cesaric and Gustav Krklec, both in the lifelong focus of professor Skok's literary analyses. In 1947 Cesaric dedicated the verses titled The Early Spring to Krklec, which appeared in the collection Poems (1951 and later) under the title The Beginning of Spring. Gustav Krklec published a collection titled The Blackbird, after the first poem in the collection. In the following editions the poem was published in The Spring of Life, "the eleventh of his collections, and the last stage in the poet's lyrical opus". (Sime VuCetic). Birds as a lyrical motif are a common allegory in contemporary Croatian poetry. Dobrisa Cesaric and Gustav Krklec, both poets of the joy of life and love of nature, are both authors, each in his own way, of lyrical miniatures about a blackbird.

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