ZNACI PESNIČKOG KONCEPTA U RANIM ESEJIMA MIODRAGA PAVLOVIĆA

On the example of a few essays from the first essay collection The Deadlines of Poetry (orig. Rokovi poezije) by Miodrag Pavlović, the paper tries to signify the indications of a future poetic principle. An analytical overview of their reading and interpretation of William Butler Yeats’s and Vasko Popa’s poetries, as well as certain theoretical and fundamental reconsideration of the literature work and poetic forms, indicate important early archi-textual traces of Pavlović’s poetic concept. Within the context of Pavlović’s opus, the paper aspires to emphasize evident correspondence occurring between an essay level and a poetic level of his work, i.e. artistic implications of his critic-essay insights. This kind of observed congruence between his essayistic and poetic plan is featured at the level of the essayistic point of view and experience of the poetic art especially, as an effort toward enclosing the whole human experience, which will later be incarnated in Pavlović’s very poetry through topics of various civilizational intersections, which are given in an epic range from ancient and biblical spheres to pagan and Christian worlds.