Josip Murn

Strongly influenced by the Viennese Secession, he wrote a series of poems with the common title Fin de siècle, in which he delivered his impressions on the life in the metropolis.There, he decided to adopt the pseudonym Aleksandrov, reminiscent of Slavic peasant archaism, and moved to an even more simple and impressionist poetic expression.He settled in Ljubljana in 1901, renting a small room in a slum building on the banks of the river Ljubljanica (an abandoned sugar factory, known as Cukrarna).He did gain some recognition during his Vienna period, when his poems were published in established literary magazines such as Ljubljanski zvon, but the later developments in his poetry did not receive a positive response by the public.By the end of the decade, Murn was already firmly established in the Slovene literary canon, and considered a great influence on Intimism[6] and successive generations of poets, particularly Alojz Gradnik, Srečko Kosovel, Miran Jarc, France Balantič, Edvard Kocbek, Dane Zajc, Niko Grafenauer, and Jože Snoj.
The scenery of the Vipava Valley , a major source of inspiration for Murn's poetry
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