Description
This edition of the songs offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English. Holton and Mihailovich, leading scholars of Slavic literature, have preserved here the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry, as well as the idiom of the original singers. Extensive notes and comments aid the reader in understanding the poems, the history they record and the oral tradition that lies beneath them, the singers and their audience.
The songs contain seven cycles, identified here in sections titled: Songs Before History, Before Kosovo, the Battle of Kosovo, Marko Karadzic, Under the Turks, Songs of the Outlaws, and Songs of the Serbian Insurrection. The editors have selected the best known and most representative songs from each of the cycles. A complete biography is also provided.
About the Author
Milne Holton is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland. Among his books are The Big Horse: Stories of Modern Macedonia, Reading the Ashes, The New Polish Poetry, Austrian Poetry Today, and with Mihailovich, Serbi
Book Information
ISBN 9780822956099
Author Milne Holton
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press