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2 unusual facts about Tin Ujević


Tin Ujević

He was a political activist of Yugoslav nationalism (1912–1916), leaving politics for a life of a quintessential bohemian wanderer, residing and blasphemously rioting in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Mostar, Split and finally Zagreb.

Having absorbed virtually all of the Western poetic tradition (from Dante and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Charles Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Whitman and Ezra Pound) and all the Croatian greats, including (Marko Marulić and Ivan Gundulić), Ujević created a protean poetic oeuvre of inimitable flavor and inescapable grandeur.



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