Nation and Elevation: Some Points of Comparison Between the “National Poets” of Slovenia and Iceland
Keywords:
national literary canon, Slovene poetry, Icelandic poetry, national poets, Prešeren, France, Halgrímsson, Jónas, comparative studiesAbstract
This article compares the poetic means of elevation used by two “national poets”, France Prešeren and Jónas Hallgrímsson, arguing that the latter elevated both his native country and the vernacular language by using aesthetic models.References
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