ЈОВАН ХРИСТИЋ И СРПСКО ПЈЕСНИШТВО
JOVAN HRISTIĆ AND SERBIAN POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The paper, first, discusses the status of Jovan Hristić’s work in the contemporary study of literature and asserts a high level of interest in his work as well as the fact that the work has been studied to a great extent. Afterwards, the paper explores the poet’s selection from tradition and indicates his connection to the ancient Greece as the “tradition of all traditions”, tragedy and hexameter; it expresses his strong value system and his connection to the Mediterranean. Special attention is drawn to Hristić’s relation to the tradition of Serbian poetry, whose fundamental points are Sterija, Laza Kostić, Dušan Matić, Stanislav Vinaver, Rastko Petrović and, among the contemporaries, Ivan V. Lalić. The paper keeps distance from the largest portion of the Romantic poetry, Parnassists, Momčilo Nastasijević, surrealism, “singable” poetry and the terror of “visual image”. Jovan Hristić has always proved to be a poet of culture, striving for maturity, wisdom, cerebral work, free verse in the subtext of which is the hexameter of Sterija, as well as a poet of high poetic awareness. As an outstanding essayist, he perceived Isidora Sekulić as his forerunner.

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