Dragutin Milivoj Domjanić (, 12th September 1875 – 7th June 1933) was a
Croat
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ian poet. He is well known for his work of Domjanic and the poems Fala and Popevke sam slagal.
Biography
Domjanić was born in Krči (now
Adamovec, Croatia), a village near the town of
Sveti Ivan Zelina
Sveti Ivan Zelina () is a town in Zagreb County, Croatia.
Geography
Sveti Ivan Zelina is north-east from Zagreb, connected:
* by A4 highway (Zagreb - Sv.Helena), then state road Sv.Helena - Sveti Ivan Zelina,
Climate
Since records began in 198 ...
. Having graduated in law, he served as a
judge
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in Zagreb and as a counsellor for the
Ban's Bench. He was a member of
Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, the president of
Matica hrvatska
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(1921–1926), and the president of Yugoslav PEN Club. In the struggle between the "old" and the "young" in the framework of Croatian
Modernism
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, he sided with the "young". He versified motifs such as spiritual love, intimacy of the nobility mansions, marquises and cavaliers of the past days. He feared the brutality of the present, mourned the world dying off, and had a negative reaction to new ideas.
Domjanić wrote in his native
Kajkavian
Kajkavian is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Č ...
dialect.
The most notable works of Domjanić are the poem collection ''Kipci i popevke'', and the poems "
Fala" and "
Popevke sam slagal", the latter two of which were set to music by
Vlaho Paljetak. Croatian composer
Ivana Lang also set to music several Domjanić's poems.
All of his poems were written in the Kajkavian literary language of the period, even though his vernacular was the Kajkavian dialect of Adamovec. He also wrote a number of literary accounts and a few prosaic notes.
He is also the author of the lesser-known string puppet play ''
Petrica Kerempuh and the Smart Ass'' (Kajkavian ), writing under the
pseudonym
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Vujec Grga.
Some of his poetic work has been translated into
Esperanto
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by Zvonko Rehoriĉ, such as ''Sub suno kaj ombro''.
He died in
Zagreb
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.
Works
* ''Poems'' (
Štokavian ), 1909
* ''
Statues and Songs'' (
Kajkavian
Kajkavian is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Č ...
), 1917
* ''
In Sun and Shadow'' (
Kajkavian
Kajkavian is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Č ...
), 1927
* ''
Through Dear Land'' (
Kajkavian
Kajkavian is a South Slavic languages, South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Č ...
), 1933
References
Sources
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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 Croatian male writers
Croatian Esperantists
Presidents of the Matica hrvatska