Selected Poems

Miodrag Pavlović was born in 1928. He graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in medicine in year 1954. His first volume of poetry, 87 Poems appeared in 1952, the year the Yugoslav authorities, responding to a public address by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, allowed more freedom of expression in politics and the arts. In 1960 Pavlović was appointed director of drama at the National Theatre in Belgrade. He also worked for twenty years as editor for the leading publishing house of Prosveta. He died in 2014.

• Introduction: Miodrag PavlovićSelected Poems‘What have you lost’‘This woman, unknown to me’Death of the LoversMadrigals for Herfrom Defending Our CityLokrumCalypso and Odysseus Odysseus on Circe’s IslandIteaSpellbound Fetters The Rhine ValleyAmiensChartresLa RotondaA Visit to St. Trophime D’arlesDescent to Limbofrom MetamorphosesBread and WineThe Dragon Slayer from Singing at the Whirlpoolfrom Linksfrom The Moon’s Weddingfrom Sequencefrom Second Sequencefrom Third Sequencefrom The Wise and Foolish VirginsThe Lovers in the ChurchBacchus and Ariadne in NaxosEntering Cremona IGiorgione: La TempestaVisiting the Zoological Gardens in Winter Emmanuel De Witt: A Girl at the VirginalsA Flemish PainterImaginary Journeyfrom The Danube Valleyfrom Orgia SacraThe End of the Orgyfrom The Science of the SoulNote