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Josip Pupačić – The anthologist

Anđela Gilić ; The faculty of Philosophy, The University of Split, Split, Croatia
Ivan Bošković orcid.org/0000-0001-7649-9360 ; The faculty of Philosophy, The University of Split, Split, Croatia

Abstract

Josip Pupačić is one of the most respected contemporary Croatian poets. Alongside the anthological “The Sea”, considered by many one of the most beautiful songs of the entire Croatian literature, he has published a wealth of verses of rare beauty, precise and clear expression, musicality, subtle rhythm. However, it is less known that Josip Pupačić was a respected researcher of literature and literary history, and – an anthologist. He actually prepared - but not published - an anthology about the sea, printed in 2005. and released by the publisher “Ex Libris”. With it he wanted to “give a comparative context of similar songs of other poets” to his Sea. In this way he has given us the most beautiful and representative poems of the sea and discovered a rich range of states, feelings and moods that it fosters. As an anthologist, Josip Pupačić chose poets “who establish a relationship with him, close a circle of beauty and emotion, which, without the consumer, is gaping empty, unfinished”, never losing a sense of literary value, beauty, artistic credibility. As an anthologist, he is adorned by an extreme meticulousness and appropriate knowledge of materials he selected.

Keywords

Pupačić; sea; anthology; literary value; artistic credibility

Hrčak ID:

82385

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/82385

Publication date:

30.9.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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