National poet

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National poet (also "national poet ") is an honorable attribute without a fixed definition. Sometimes it is the ideal poet who is credited with having captured the spirit, culture and traditions of a country or a people in his written works. In most countries, this attribute is given to several authors (e.g. Božena Němcová (Czech Republic) or Emily Dickinson (USA)).

There are both official appointments in the tradition of the coronation of poets ( Gottfried Keller, for example, was elevated to the rank of national poet by the Swiss Federal Council in 1889 , and the British Queen always appoints a poet laureate ) and unofficial attributions in the mass media. Even local celebrities like Frankfurt's Adolf Stoltze sometimes wear this attribute. Common characteristic is popular recognition by public opinion .

Typical representatives

Some outstanding, state-funded cultural institutes for the promotion of the corresponding languages ​​are named after national poets:

Further examples

Africa

Asia

Europe

North and Central America

Oceania

South America

background

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A historical root for the canonization as a “national poet” seems to be the novel conception of the “ people ” in Romanticism (influential: Johann Gottfried Herder ). It had an effect above all on those - often small - European peoples who were under princely or foreign rule and to whom the authors who wrote effectively in their own language gave a voice.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the appropriation of the respective "national poets" or national literature was a frequent element of nationalist propaganda. In the era of National Socialism there were attempts substandard nationalist authors, for example, as Dietrich Eckart using conformist raise media to the rank of the national poet, was canceled so the term in the German language area in part.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lusiads. In: World Digital Library ; 1800-1882. Retrieved August 31, 2013 .
  2. ↑ See the designation of the French language as langue de Molière (the language of Molières). Wiktionary: langue de Molière .