Review article
Oral poetry of the Krka river basin in the great edition Croatian folk poems published by the Matica hrvatska
Ivan Mimica
Abstract
The paper focuses on the oral poetry of the Krka River basin as represented in the famous edition entitled Croatian Folk Poems published by the Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society, consisting of ten volumes, edited and printed between 1896 and 1942. The poems were selected from a rich array of manuscripts collected by the Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society from all Croatian regions. At that time there was no comprehensive or systematic collection of the works of oral tradition in the area of the Krka River. However, a considerable number of oral poems was published in the Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society edition, primarily owing to Nikola Tommaseo and Mihovil Pavlinović, whose valuable manuscript collections, embracing the materials
collected throughout Dalmatia, also contain records from the coastal and hinterland areas of Šibenik. These texts may not be numerous, but nevertheless represent, for the major part, successful poetic achievements.
Keywords
oral poetry; the Krka River basin; the edition Croatian Folk Poems; manuscript collections; the Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society
Hrčak ID:
112445
URI
Publication date:
14.5.2010.
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