Два песника из времена Вучићеве буне
Two Poets from the Period of Toma Vučić’s Rebellion

Summary/Abstract: Mihailo came into conflict with the Constitutionalists, an uneasy political situation inspired a lot of poetry that glorified either of the parties – the Obrenović dynasty or the Constitutionalists and the new prince Aleksandar Karađorđević. This poetry was secretly distributed among readers in the Serbian principality, and its authors, readers and dealers were often investigated by the police. In order to influence a wider circle of readers, these poems were written in the form of folk, mostly epic poetry. This, originally dynastic poetry glorifying Obrenović or Karađorđević dynasties became more and more politically engaged and later became political poetry. Sima Milutinović and Jovan Hadžić were its leading authors. They were followed by a large group of now forgotten poets, among whom there were two poets, subject of this paper: Stanoje Ćosić and Đorđe Grozdanović. Their poetry was published in separate leaflets, and some of it remained in autographs and transcripts. Thanks to materials in police archives, some of the poems were saved and they are published in full here. The same archive materials helped us also to identify the poet who signed himself as Ivan Sokolović.

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