Poetry
Романтични песни
Not translated into English
Teodor Trayanov · 1926
Synopsis
Romantic Songs: forty-eight short poems, from the month of May, where a lark hovers over a field swaying beneath the blue sky, to the testament of a vagabond turned towards a distant forest whose memory his songs will keep. In between pass an evening sinking amid thin pink waves above blue mountains, enchanted forests, a water nymph, a nocturnal harp, songs of wandering and winter dreams; isolation and buried love recur there, and the landscape takes on the colour of feelings.
Context
The collection appeared in Sofia in 1926, during the years when the author was running Hyperion. In his preface to the poet's selected works, Lyudmil Stoyanov sees in it the epilogue of feelings and the decline of passions, at the end of a long inner crisis; he notes elements of folk songs mixed with lived experience, and compares it with San za shtastie by Pencho Slaveykov, whose nostalgia seems to him more concrete. In a letter of 1932 published by Rumen Shivachev, the author attributes the inspiration for the book to Dora Dyustabanova.
Who it is for
Forty-eight short, rhymed pieces, to be read one by one; no French or English translation of the collection has been found.
Prizes and reception
An intimate collection from the Hyperion period, from which Dobri Hristov drew songs for schools in 1937.
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