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Russian & Slavic

Jan Kollár

1793–1852

Jan Kollár (Ján Kollár, 1793–1852) was a Slovak poet who wrote in Czech, a Protestant minister and a leading voice of Slavic literary solidarity. Bowring calls him John Kollár and describes him as a Bohemian minister at Pesth, in Hungary.

His sonnet cycle Slávy dcera (The Daughter of Sláva) joins love for his Mína to grief and hope for the Slavic peoples. Bowring translated a large selection, keeping the sonnet form; the numbered sonnets here keep Kollár's numbering, and seven further sonnets Bowring received in manuscript are unnumbered.

Poems (41)

  1. Sonnet 9
  2. Sonnet 10
  3. Sonnet 12
  4. Sonnet 15
  5. Sonnet 21
  6. Sonnet 23
  7. Sonnet 27
  8. Sonnet 28
  9. Sonnet 30
  10. Sonnet 33
  11. Sonnet 36
  12. Sonnet 37
  13. Sonnet 39
  14. Sonnet 43
  15. Sonnet 45
  16. Sonnet 50
  17. Sonnet 54
  18. Sonnet 56
  19. Sonnet 68
  20. Sonnet 70
  21. Sonnet 72
  22. Sonnet 79
  23. Sonnet 88
  24. Sonnet 95
  25. Sonnet 102
  26. Sonnet 103
  27. Sonnet 106
  28. Sonnet 108
  29. Sonnet 110
  30. Sonnet 112
  31. Sonnet 118
  32. Sonnet 125
  33. Sonnet 133
  34. Sonnet 146
  35. Sonnet (Not gold, nor precious drinks, nor costly food)
  36. Sonnet (Even as the changeful moon across the sky)
  37. Sonnet (Disease curtails the gathering years of some)
  38. Sonnet (What colors! what sweet fragrance ye are throwing)
  39. Sonnet (There is a hill where time's devouring teeth)
  40. Sonnet (At midnight, when the robes of darkness, when)
  41. Sonnet (O she has caus'd me many days of mourning)

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