Ivo Andrić, pjesnik
Ivo Andrić, a Poet

Summary/Abstract: This paper is about Andrić’s poetry collections Ex Ponto (1918) and Nemiri (1920), as well as the collection Šta sanjam i šta mi se događa (1976), released after his death. The topic of this research regards the thematic circles: soul and God, loneliness and melancholy, and in accordance with them language and rhythm of the verses as well. The poetic and aesthetic adhesion to the Cosmos – where biographical and historical time concur – fits into the movement of revolutionary idealism of the youth in Europe, making possible Andrić’s reviving of spirit of the time in the native Bosnia, which is not a province of Europe anymore. Considering that the poetic work has received positive critical opinions from its very beginning, as well as taking into account the reticent relation of the poet to his own lyrics, the question about the critical formulation of sixty-year-long poetry writing – from 1911 (two poems published in “Bosanska vila”), through 1914 (six poems published in “Hrvatska mlada lirika”), until 1973, when he writes his last poem – has still remained unsolved in literary history. The paper also analyzes materials from Andrić’s manuscripts legacy – as a meaningful confirmation of writer’s “baptism” by the lyrics, and as an expression of the poetics of incompleteness. Guidelines of the overall insight into Andrić’s lyrics, on the basis of the mentioned studies, point to a particular quality of the poetry in the “function” of the prose and its “epic power” with which it became patrimony of world literature.

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