Lumír

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The first issue of Lumír 1851

Lumír is a weekly literary magazine that was established in 1851. It was the focal point of the neo-romantic nationalist poet Jaroslav Vrchlický and his Ossianic followers.[1][2] Lumír is the name of a bard in Czech legend.

References

  1. ↑ Paul Selver, An Anthology of Czechoslovak Literature, 1929, p.15: "The rallying-point of Vrchlicky and his followers was the Lumir, a literary periodical which was founded in the ... Celtic, Spanish, and Oriental legends, from the Charlemagne cycle, and from the early history of his native country."
  2. ↑ Arne Novák & William Edward Harkins, Czech literature , 1976: "These artistic leanings revealed the Lumir adherents as Neo-Romantics. Their enthusiasm for "restoring old paintings" was Romantic; Romantic was their ambition to integrate epic fragments into a unified "legend of an era;" Romantic was ..."
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