Dragutin Domjanić (12 September 1875 – 7 June 1933) was a

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ian poet. Domjanić was born in Krči, a village near the town of

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. Having graduated law, he served as a

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in Zagreb and as a counsellor for Ban's Bench. He was a member of

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, the president of

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(1921–1926), and the president of Yugoslav PEN Club. In a struggle between the "old" and the "young" in the framework of Croatian

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, he sides with the "young". He versified motifs such as spiritual love, intimacy of the nobility mansions, marquises and cavaliers of the past days. He fears the brutality of the present, mourns the world dying off, he is incredulous of new ideas. His affection for the past directs him towards his mother tongue -

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. The most notable work of Domjanić is thus Kajkavian poem collection ''Kipci i popevke'', and the poems "

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" and " Popevke sam slagal", both set to music by

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. Croatian composer

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has in a similar manner set to music several Domjanić's poems. His lyrical expression, idyllic and sentimental, abounds both by the picturesqueness and musicality. He became the first writer in

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to achieve complete and artistically mature melodiousness and rhythmicity of the Croatian

expression. All of his poems were written in Kajkavian literary language, although his vernacular was Kajkavian dialect of Adamovec. He also wrote a number of literary accounts, and a few prosaic notes, chiefly in the spirit of his lyrical interests and stylistic manière. He is also the author of the lesser known "string puppet play" ''Petrica Kerempuh i spametni osel'', in which he provides a critical and satirical account of Croatian intellectuals in the 1920s. Some of his poetic work has been translated into Esperanto, by Zvonko Rehoriĉ, e.g., ‘Sub suno kaj ombro’. He died in

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Works

* ''Pjesme'' (1909) * '' Kipci i popevke'' (1917) * '' V suncu i senci'' (1927) * '' Po dragomu kraju'' (1933)

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Domjanic, Dragutin 1875 births 1933 deaths 20th-century Croatian poets Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery Croatian male poets 20th-century male writers