The Birth of the Poet

"Your Mother" - Botev's first poetic work not only sets a brilliant beginning to his work. It becomes a kind of concentration of his talent, it discovers the unsuspected possibilities of the individual to express himself. "Your Mother" marks the birth of our greatest poet, the extraordinary vitality and artistic uniqueness of his talent. There is no other example in our literature for such a spontaneous, unexpected birth of talent. Vazov, one of Botev's peers in poetry, long before the creation of "The Pine", a poem that brought him poetic fame, made very pale, insignificant "experiments". Slaveykov had to go the long way of imitative poetry before he found himself, his own poetic theme. Even Chintulov - a poet who stands closer to Botev with the immediate manifestation of his talent, in his first poems is almost completely "different" from the well-known poet of the romantic youth of our Revival - the author of the first rebellious songs.