France Balantič
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France Balantič was a Slovene poet. His works were banned from schools and libraries during the Titoist regime in Slovenia, but since the late 1980s he has been re-evaluated as one of the foremost Slo
France Balantič
Alojz Gradnik
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Alojz Gradnik was a Slovenian poet and translator.
France Balantič
…the Slovene Romantic poet France Prešeren, the decadentist poet Josip Murn, the expressionist Srečko Kosovel, and especially the religious symbolism of Alojz Gradnik. Balantič was a master of classic poetic forms, especially sonnets. His major poem was "Sonetni venec" (The Wreath of Sonnets, written in 1940) and…
Alojz Gradnik 1925
A village in the Gorizia Hills, a major inspiration for Gradnik's poetry