Slovenian Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
The Slovenes, a small Slavic nation at the northwestern edge of the former Yugoslavia, have had a very unhappy history. One of the first among the Slavic peoples to have their own independent state (in the eighth century), they were the first to lose it (to Germanic tribes in the ninth century). They remained under German or Austrian domination until 1918—a period of almost a thousand years. It is not surprising that under such conditions Slovenian culture could not develop properly; indeed, it is a miracle that it survived. Like their South Slavic brethren, the...
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