Srečko Kosovel
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Srečko Kosovel (pronunciationⓘ) (18 March 1904 – 26 May 1926) was a Slovenian poet, now considered one of central Europe's major modernist poets.[1] He was labeled an impressionistic poet of his native Karst region, a political poet resisting forced Italianization of the Slovene areas annexed by Italy, an expressionist, a dadaist, a satirist, and as a voice of international socialism, using avant-garde constructivist forms.[2] He is now considered a Slovenian poetic icon.
Srečko Kosovel | |
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Born | (1904-03-18)March 18, 1904 Sežana, Gorizia and Gradisca, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) |
Died | May 26, 1926(1926-05-26) (aged 22) Tomaj, Kingdom of Italy (now in Slovenia) |
Occupation | Poet |
Literary movement | Impressionism, Expressionism, Constructivism |
Notable works | Konsi |
Most of Kosovel's works were published almost four decades after his early death at 22. In his homeland, Kosovel entered the 20th-century Slovene literary canon as a poet who produced an impressive body of work of more than 1000 drafts, among them 500 complete poems, with a quality regarded as unusually high for his age.[1]