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Poezie a politika: básník mezi konjunkturalismem, sebeobětováním, ostrakizací a osamělostí

Title in English Poetry and Politics: Poet Among Boom, Self-sacrifice, Ostracism and Loneliness
Authors

POSPÍŠIL Ivo

Year of publication 2015
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Description The autor of the present article deals wit the question whether the political poem can be good poetry. He compares the two types of poets and two types of poetry – Miroslav Válek and Miroslav Florian: the former inclines towards modern poetry lacerated with contradictions, the latter rather to harmony and idyll. The poetry of both, however, keeps its aesthetic value, though it cultivates the opportunist political subjects of its time.

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