Mladen Isaev

Bulgarian civic poetry has a relatively long and glorious tradition. It began at the beginning of our national revival and continues to this day. The brightest works of our poetry from Hristo Botev to the present day bear a clearly civic character. Of course, every era has its own peculiarities, its own problems. Some were the problems of the time of Botev and Vazov, others are the problems that excite our contemporaries. After the October Revolution, our civic poetry marked a rapid rise. In the work of such colossus of our poetry as Hristo Smirnenski, Geo Milev, the poets of the 1930s with the brightest representative - our national hero Nikola Vaptsarov, the great excitements, thoughts and dreams of our people find vivid expression. Our revolutionary poetry of the twenties and thirties with its best achievements was civic lyrics in the best, I would say, in the noblest sense of this concept. Socialist humanism was the soul of this poetry.