Lonesome Poplar Tree: Selected Poems

by Josip Murn, Tina Kozin (Editor), Nada Groselj (Translator), Jason Blake (Translator), Nada Groselj (Afterword)

Overview

Though Murn’s oeuvre ranges from erotic pieces to poems about the countryside, from atmospheric and reflective to narrative poems, the boundaries between these categories are often blurred. His most acclaimed works are his countryside lyric poems and atmospheric pieces. The former, seemingly echoing the simplicity of folk songs, render the townsman’s dream of a bucolic idyll. Murn plays through a vast repertory of metres and rhymes, sometimes harking back to traditional folk forms, such as ballads or romances, sometimes even switching to free verse. His atmospheric poems, on the other hand, paint miniature impressions – usually melancholy ones – of natural scenes. Noteworthy is Murn’s masterful use of sound devices, from general euphony to expressive sound repetition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789616995283
Publisher:	Slovene Writers' Association
Publication date:	07/24/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	283
File size:	523 KB

About the Author

The oeuvre of Josip Murn (pen name Aleksandrov, 1879–1901) belongs to the Slovene variant of neo-romanticism, the  moderna  period (1899–1918). It rests on subjectivity with its moods, emotions and dreams, a subjectivity which finds its impressionistic voice in short atmospheric or confessional poems with symbolic undertones. The poet published no book in his short lifetime: his début collection,  Pesmi in romance  (Songs and Romances), was published posthumously in 1903. The contents were selected by the poet’s friend and renowned literary historian, Ivan Prijatelj, whose introduction was the first aesthetic evaluation of the author’s work. Murn’s popularity rose after the Great War and peaked after World War II, when his poetry decisively influenced the poets of Slovene intimism. Today Murn is considered a major national lyric poet, the one who salvaged Slovene poetry from the grip of national and social ideologies, internalising it completely (https://litteraeslovenicae.si/).

Table of Contents

Contents Songs and Romances A Spring Romance A Hint of Spring The Counterpart I Know Not Which Is Sadder At Twilight Two Pretty Doves Romance Woodlands Growing Dark July: The Month of Hay I Have Mused on Days Gone By The Fair Song Field Carnations No, I Will Not Cross the Plains Would I Knew Your Mother, Dear A Pilgrim's Song In Springtime Hey, I Shall Buy a Pipe Rustle of Chestnuts Song In the Field Grow Slender Hops Mary Wormwood You Flow among the Willows Again Have Willows Sprouted In the Evening Melancholy Breeze Came Drifting Under You I Stand Again Long, oh Long the Winter Night Still the Past Spreads Out Her Cloak We Loved Each Other When You No Longer Tremble Leave Me, Leave Me, Pray, My Youth With Concepts, Words I'm Not Backing Up A Spell The Eagle Yearning A Country Song Fate A Morning on Sunday, with Cloudy Wisps Floating Why Sunk in Deep Thought and Such Woe Longing for a Bride Matchmakers A Wedding Song The Mother in Law Greets the Bride with Goblet in Hand Saint John's Eve A Song of the Ear of Corn Saint Ambrose A Song of Buckwheat The Autumn's Come and We Are Getting Wed And a Witch A Scottish Tale A Winter Country Song Vlachs An Embertide Ballad The Miller and the Devil The Spectre Wishes Now Are Come the Days of Yuletide A Ballad On the Plain The Vale There's Much I've Forgotten, Dear Girl Yes, I Would Get Married Come Is the Autumnal Night The One Who Loves You Empty Lies the Open Road A Song of Saint Martin Before All Hallows' Eve An Inner Carniolan Song A High Prayer Like a Venus's Sculpted Form As from Still, Forsaken Chapels Evening A Winter Song A Winter Song Snow A Latvian Motif, I A Latvian Motif, II A Latvian Folk Song A Slovak Song Good Morn to You, oh Mary In Voiceless Night Song Tinka Out There A Flash Homecoming Blarney Stone Lyric Poems Sky, Oh Sky Spruce By the Raibl Lake A Winter Morning Ah My Pines In the Silent Field In the Park Peace The Night Walk In the Evening Song An Autumn Song An Autumn Song A Lady In the Park Autumn Wood Barren Fields The Pine The Crow Winter Drinkers A Folk Song Good Day, Mother of the House Fifteen Years On the Knoll Ever So Shyly Nights January: The Wolf Month Wherever You Tarry Evening Morning Girlish Sorrow Song I Passed My Garden Countless Times Song Fin de Siècle An Angel High A Dove Foreboding A Berry on a Juniper Tree Song A Question On the Platform Where Are You, Silent Home A Fool Is He Who Moans How Lovely Faraway Melody Before My Mary Open! Night Wind No Longer A Hunting Horn Verses It Was But Glamour Freedom Freedom Alone One Last Moment I Shall Go Bells Are Ringing on Saint Mary's Day Stars Fate Chords An Infant In Equanimity The Walnut Tree He Died Epitaph Nada Grošelj Neo-Romanticism in the Time of Josip Murn Brane Senegačnik A Huge Sigh – of an Unknown World Selected Bibliography Litteræ Slovenicæ 1991-2016