SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE ЛАЗЕ КОСТИЋА У ПЕСНИЧКОМ ВИДОКРУГУ БРАНКА МИЉКОВИЋА И БОРИСЛАВА РАДОВИЋА

Abstract

The poetry of Laza Kostić left a strong impression on several Serbian interwar modernists, but it was in the years after the Second World War that Kostić’s role in the forming of modern poetic expression became completely clear to poets and commentators. Various aspects of the reception of Kostić’s poetry, especially of his poem Santa Maria della Salute, in Serbian interwar and post-war literary-critical thought have been largely explored. In this paper, I focus on the way in which members of the second generation of post-war modernists reacted to Kostić’s late poem in their verses. In the poem Laza Kostić [Лаза Костић] from the cycle Seven Dead Poets [Седам мртвих песника], which was written in 1956, Branko Miljković emphasized the autopoetic dimension of Santa Maria della Salute. In the poem Before the Pharmacy of Our Lady of the Sea [Пред лекарницом у Госпе од мора], which was published in Poems 1971–1982 [Песме 1971–1982], Borislav Radović elaborated on ecological problems raised in Kostić’s late poem.