Dragotin Kette

Dragotin Kette was a Slovene Impressionist and NeoRomantic poet. Together with Josip Murn, Ivan Cankar, and Oton upani, he is considered the founder of modernism in Slovene literature.

Kette was born in the small village of Prem near the Carniolan town of Ilirska Bistrica, in what was then part of the AustroHungarian Empire . His father was a teacher and a choirmaster his mother died when he was four years old. In 1898, he enrolled in the State Secondary School in Ljubljana. In 1894, his maternal uncle, Janez Valeni, who was paying for Kettes scholarship, withdrew his financial support because Kette published some satirical verses about the bishop of Ljubljana Jakob Missia in the student paper. Kette had to continue his studies in Novo Mesto, where he passed his highschool leaving exam in 1898. In Novo Mesto, he fell in love with the daughter of the district judge, Angela Smola, to whom he dedicated his most beautiful poems.

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