{"product_id":"slavas-daughter-paperback","title":"Sláva's Daughter - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJan Kollár\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharles S. Kraszewski\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'O fair Slavenka! \/ You sing no more', laments the twenty-four year old Jan Kollár, wandering the ancient forests of Germany where Slavs once lived: 'Where once the marble walls \/ of Perun's palace rose on high, the posts \/ - O, shameful mockery! - now prop a byre'. Born in Mosovce, in the Turiec region of what at the time was the Kingdom of Hungary, the Slovak Kollár (1793-1852), was to become one of the great poets of the Romantic period. His masterpiece \u003cem\u003eSláva's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e [\u003cem\u003eSlávy dcera\u003c\/em\u003e, 1821-1851] is an epic striking both in its breadth, and intent. For although composed during the Czech and Slovak \u003cem\u003enational revival\u003c\/em\u003e period, the 'nation' that Kollár bewails, praises, and serves in this poem is 'Slavdom'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSláva's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e is unique in its unrelentingly aspirational Pan-Slavism. Kollár was of the opinion that Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Poles, Croatians, Russians, and all the rest were merely 'tribes' of the one Slavic nation, and their languages 'dialects' of one great Slavic speech. A Pan-Slav, he worked for ever greater cultural reciprocity between the 'sons of Sláva', which hopefully would lead to their political unification. As poetry, Kollár's masterpiece is a bold and singular work of literature, which combines the style of Petrarch's \u003cem\u003eIl Canzoniere\u003c\/em\u003e with the prophetic grandeur of Dante Alighieri's \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story it tells develops over the space of 645 sonnets arranged into five peripatetic cantos. Along with Kollár's narrator, we follow his \u003cem\u003edonna ideale\u003c\/em\u003e Mína, and Milek, the Slavic Cupid, as they lead us along the banks of Slavic rivers (Sála, Vltava, Danube), and those of Slavic Heaven and Hell (Lethe, Acheron) towards the great dawn of Pan-Slavic triumph. \u003cem\u003eSláva's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e, which Glagoslav presents unabridged and annotated in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, is a must read for all those interested in the poetry and history of the European nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 642\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48457415688441,"sku":"9781804842720","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/46H1-1aZPf9781804842720.webp?v=1780081814","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/slavas-daughter-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}