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 | | Petar Petrovic Njegos (1813-1851), the Bishop and ruler of Montenegro, embraced the entire epoch in his poetic development - from folk poetry, through the aspirations of Classicism, up to Romanticism. |
 | | Njegos created a new poetic form, based on the folk song, combining it with the tradition of European poetry from Homer to Romanticism, and including the experience of contemporary Serbian poets, most notably that of his teacher, Milutinovic. |
 | | He was called the "Njegos of prose" because, similar to the great poet, he depicted national history and "the way of living, thinking, and conversing" of the people from his region, using forms of oral tradition and the style of "folk eloquence". |
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