The Mountain Wreath

The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. Njegoš wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression.

The Mountain Wreath

The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play, a masterpiece of Serbian literature, written by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. Njegoš wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna. It is a modern epic written in verse as a play, thus combining three of the major modes of literary expression.