Draft:Vladimir Vasic (poet)



Vladimir Vasić (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Васић; Šabac, Principality of Serbia, 8 August 1842[1] - Šabac, Principality of Serbia, 22 August 1964) was a Serbian poet.

Biography

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His ancestors are descended from the Bjelopavlići from the Serbian land of Montenegro. He started elementary school in Loznica, continued his education in Šabac, and then in Belgrade, where he finished the sixth grade of gymnasium. He had to leave high school to join the military in autumn 1861. As a state cadet, he was sent to Prussia. He spent two years in Berlin in the Royal Rifle Corps, and then spent another year in [[Erfurt]. While in Erfurt, he fell ill with tuberculosis, so he returned home to Loznica. He died there soon after, on 22 August 1864. Father Ignjat Vasić (a relative) buried him near the Loznica church.[2][3]

Vasić began to engage in poetry very early. His oldest preserved poem dates from 1859, when he was only seventeen years old. Vladimir Vasić was a poet of patriotic origin and one of the patriotic enthusiasts of his time. The most beautiful feature of his poems is the sincerity of feeling. He also dealt with love lyrics, but critics did not have much praise for these poems. He created his poetry under the influence of folk songs, but also Branko Radičević. Radičević's influence is best seen in the poem Drugovima na rastanku, which was inspired by Radičević's Đački rastanko. He published his first verses in 1860 in the Belgrade newspaper “Svetovid". He wrote the most poems in 1861. From 1862, he published his verses in Novi Sad's "Danica (magazine)", the main literary magazine of the time. Unfortunately, the further development of Vasić's poetic career was ended by his death at the age of twenty-two.[4][5]

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References

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  1. name=":0">Kaćanski S. V., Complete Works / Stevan Kaćanski ; [for Print edited by Milan Kašanin], Belgrade: Narodna prosveta, [1929] (Belgrade: "Makarije"), p. XIII
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  3. name=":1">Cite book|title=Famous Serbs of the 19th Century, Year I|publisher=Serbian Printing House|year=1901.|editor-last=Gavrilović|editor-first=Andra|location=Zagreb|pages=115.
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