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The "Battle of Kosovo" cycle of heroic ballads is generally
considered the finest work of Serbian folk poetry. Commemorating
the Serbian Empire's defeat at the hands of the Turks in the late
fourteenth century, these poems and fragments have been known for
centuries in Eastern Europe. With the appearance of the collections
of Serbian folk poems by Vuk Stefanovic Karasdzic, the brilliance
of the poetry in the Kosovo and related cycles of ballads was
affirmed by poets and critics as deeply influential as Goethe,
Jacob Brimm, Adam Mickiewicz, and Alexander Pushkin. Although
translations into English have been attempted before, few of them,
as Charles Simic notes in his preface, have been persuasive until
now. Simic compares the movement of the verse in these translations
to the "variable foot" effect of William Carlos Williams's later
poetry, and argues that John Matthias "grasps the poetic strategies
of the anonymous Serbian poet as well as Pound did those of Chinese
poetry."
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