Slovak Literature in English Translation

Kollár’s masterpiece Sláva’s Daughter is a bold and singular work of literature, which combines the style of Petrarch’s Il Canzoniere with the prophetic grandeur of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, as its story develops over the space of 645 sonnets arranged into five peripatetic cantos. Along with Kollár’s narrator, we follow his donna ideale Mína, and Milek, the Slavic Cupid, as they lead us along the banks of Slavic rivers (Elbe, Vltava, Danube), and those of Slavic Heaven and Hell (Lethe, Acheron) towards the great dawn of Pan-Slavic triumph. Sláva’s Daughter, 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.