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| Born | January 19, 1876 Prem near Ilirska Bistrica, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) |
| Died | April 26, 1899 Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary (now in Slovenia) |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Literary movement | Fin de siecle, Neo-romanticism |
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Dragotin Kette (January 19, 1876 - April 26, 1899) was a Slovene Impressionist and Neo-Romantic poet. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Slovenes or Slovenians ( Slovene Slovenci, dual Slovenca, singular Slovenec, feminine Slovenke, dual Slovenki Influenced by the Impressionist art movement many writers adopted a style that relied on associations The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in music and painting A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Together with Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov (4 March 1879 &ndash 18 June 1901 was a Slovenian symbolist Poet. Ivan Cankar (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918 was a Slovene Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Poet and political activist. Oton Župančič (January 23 1878 – June 11 1949 was a Slovene Poet, Translator and Playwright. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Slovene Literature starts with Freising manuscripts around 1000
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Life
Kette was born in a small village of Prem near the Carniolan town of Ilirska Bistrica, in what was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Slovenia). Carniola (Kranjska Krain is a traditional and historical region of Slovenia. Ilirska Bistrica (Illyrisch Feistritz Villa del Nevoso is a town and a municipality in Slovenia. Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija) is a Country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west His father was a teacher and a choirmaster; his mother died when he was four years old. Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures In 1898, he enrolled to the State Gymnasium in Ljubljana. A gymnasium (pronounced with ɡ- in several languages is a type of school providing Secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar Ljubljana ( is the largest and Capital city of Slovenia. It is located in the center of the country and is a mid-sized city of some 270000 inhabitants In 1894, his maternal uncle, Janez Valenčič, who was paying for Kette's scholarship, withdrew his financial support, because Kette published some satyric verses on the bishop of Ljubljana Jakob Missia in the student paper. The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Ljubljana ( Latin: Archidioecesis Labacensis) is an ecclesiastical territory Kette had to continue his studies in Novo mesto, where he successfully passed his matura exam in 1898] In Novo mesto, he fell in love with the daughter of the district judge, Angela Smola, to whom he dedicated his most beautiful poems. Novo Mesto (Novo mesto is a town and one of the eleven town municipalities in the Lower Carniola region of the Slovenia. Matura (Matur Maturita Maturità Maturität матура is the word commonly used in Austria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria
During his high school years, he became acquainted with the young authors Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič and Josip Murn, who were introducing modernist elements in Slovene literature.
After finishing his high school studies, Kette was drafted by the Austro-Hungarian Army and sent to Trieste. The Austro-Hungarian Army was the ground force of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy (1867 - 1918 Trieste (Trieste Slovene and Croatian: Trst; German: Triest) is a city and port in northeastern Italy very near to In Trieste, he fell sick with tuberculosis and returned to Ljubljana, where he settled in a small room in a slum building on the banks of the river Ljubljanica (an abandoned sugar factory, known as Cukrarna). Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for tubercle bacillus or T u' b' erculosis Bacillus --> is a common The Ljubljanica is a River in Slovenia. It is 41 km long and some 20 km of its course lies underground in Caves so the river has seven names (six name He died there in 1899, at the age of 23. In the last weeks of his life, he was catered by his close friend Josip Murn, who would die two years later on the same bed.
He is buried in the Žale cemetery in the Bežigrad district of Ljubljana. Žale Central cemetery (Centralno pokopališče Žale or shortly Žale, is the largest and the central Cemetery in Ljubljana. is a district in the northern part of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It encompasses the area between the southern rail line to the south the Upper Carniola (or
Work
Kette's poetry was influenced mostly by Slovene folk songs and by classical authors such as Goethe, Heine and Prešeren. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Heine is a German Family name. The name comes from " Heinrich " (English Henry or the Hebrew " Chayyim " ( life) France Prešeren, also known in the Germanized version as Franz Prescheren (1800–1849 was a Slovene Romantic Poet. Through his friends, he became acquainted with French symbolist and decadentist poets, particularly Paul Verlaine and Maurice Maeterlinck, but rejected them. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century Art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts In 19th century European and especially French literature, Decadence was the name given first by hostile critics and then triumphantly adopted by some writers Paul-Marie Verlaine (vɛʁˈlɛn March 30, 1844 &ndash January 8, 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Count Maeterlinck ( August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian Poet, Playwright, He chose instead an original approach, similar to neo-romantic trends in fin-de-siecle Europe. Fin de siècle (fɑ̃ dɛ si'ɛːkl French for ‛end of the century‘ was a cultural movement between 1880 and the beginning of World War I.
His most famous works include the lyrical impressionist poem Na trgu ("On the Square"), and a cycle of eight poems entitled Na Molu San Carlo ("On Saint Charles Pier") written in Trieste.
Kette is also famous as the author of popular children literature. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 He wrote around 25 tales and poems for children, with the most famous being, "The Tale of the Dressmaker and the Little Scissors", "The Sultan and the Doggy" and "The Bee and the Bumblebee". His children literature is still widely popular and it has been translated into German, Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian and Hungarian. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Czech (ˈʧɛk čeština ˈʧɛʃcɪna in Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers it is the majority language in the Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, Croatian language ( hrvatski jezik) is a South Slavic language which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina in neighbouring Macedonian () is the official Language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Hungarian ( magyar nyelv) is a Uralic language (more specifically a Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe.
Influence and legacy
Contrary to his friend Josip Murn, Kette became an established poet already during his lifetime. His death was followed by a semi-official mourning and several public figures, such as the mayor of Ljubljana Ivan Hribar, participated in Kette's funeral. Ivan Hribar, ( 19 September 1851 &ndash 28 December 1941) was a Slovene Banker, Politician, Diplomat His collected poems were published in 1900, edited by Anton Aškerc, who was then considered the most important author in the Slovenian language, who had previously rejected Kette's poetry. Anton Aškerc ( 9 January 1856 &ndash 10 June 1912) was a Slovene Poet and Roman Catholic Priest, Aškerc's condenscendingly patronizing preface to the edition was strongly criticized by Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič, leding to a public dispute in which the young Slovenian writers challenged the esthetic standards of the older generations, represented by Aškerc. On the first anniversary of Kette's death, Ivan Cankar published an influential essay in his memory, which began with the words:
A year ago Dragotin Kette passed away in Ljubljana and some newspapers reported that we had lost a very talented poet. There were few who realized that the young man who had died was the biggest talent we have had since Prešeren.
Kette had an important influence on future generations of Slovenian authors, such as Alojz Gradnik, Srečko Kosovel, Miran Jarc, Ivan Minatti, Janez Menart, Kajetan Kovič and Ciril Zlobec. Alojz Gradnik ( August 3, 1882 - July 14, 1967) was a Slovene Poet and Translator. Srečko Kosovel ( March 18 1904 &ndash May 27 1926) was a Slovene avant-garde poet
Sources
- Ivan Cankar, "Dragotin Kette" in Bela krizantema (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1966), 16-28. Ivan Cankar (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918 was a Slovene Writer, Playwright, Essayist, Poet and political activist.
- Silvo Fatur, Dragotin Kette - Prem (Ilirska Bistrica: Občina, 2000).
- Matjaž Kmecl, Kette na svetli strani moderne (Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 2006).
- Juraj Martinović, Poezija Dragotina Ketteja (Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 1976). This article is about the Slovene publishing house founded in 1864
- Janez Mušič, Dragotin Kette (Ljubljana: Mladika, 1993).
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