Kytice

For the 2000 Czech film, see Wild Flowers (film).

Kytice (Czech for Bouquet; original full title was Kytice z pověstí národních - A Bouquet of National Legends) is a collection of ballads by the Czech author Karel Jaromír Erben, first published in 1853 and considered a classic. It is made up of 13 poems:

  1. Kytice
  2. Poklad (Treasure)
  3. Svatební košile (The Wedding Shirts)
  4. Polednice (Lady midday)
  5. Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning-Wheel)
  6. Štědrý den (Christmas Eve); made into a melodrama by Zdeněk Fibich
  7. Holoubek (Little Dove)
  8. Záhořovo lože (Záhoř's Bed)
  9. Vodník (The Water-Goblin)
  10. Vrba (Willow)
  11. Lilie (Lily), added in the 1861 second edition
  12. Dceřina kletba (Daughter's Curse)
  13. Věštkyně (Seeress)

Kytice was a 1972 loose adaptation to a theatre musical by Jiří Suchý and Ferdinand Havlík (music), one of the most popular pieces in the history of his Semafor theatre.

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