The Bulgarian Odysseus and the truth about his return

In the short period of victory and disappointment in the struggle for spiritual independence, between 1870 and 1873, Petko Slaveykov wrote three poetic works that became the crowning glory of his poetic work - "Don't Sing to Me", "My Cruelty Has Broken", and "The Spring of the White-Legged Woman". During these years, he wrote other poems, but they repeat the motifs known until then in his poetry, they do not carry the dazzling novelty of the aforementioned ones, both in spirit and in expression.