Siromašan pesnik siromaha
Poor poet of the poor

Summary/Abstract: A. B. Šimić (1898–1925) was the most outstanding representative of the Croat expressionistic poetry, creator of the Croat verse libre. At the beginning of the twenties, similarly to a lot of Central-Eastern-European poets (Attila József, Srečko Kosovel), Šimić proved to be sensitive of social aspects and wrote a cycle of poems under the title Siromasi (Poor people). The task of the paper is to find out to what extent these poems conform to and to what extent they are different from the spinal cord of the poet’s works—poems gathered in volume Preobraženja (Metamorphosis).

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