The Lay of Kossovo: Serbia's Past and Present (1389-1917)

The Lay of Kossovo:
Serbia's Past and Present
(1389-1917)

Frederick William Harvey, Charles Oman,
Sir Arthur Evans, Tihomir R. Gjorgjevitch,
Alice and Claude Askew & Gilbert Keith Chesterton

THE LAY OF KOSSOVO

SERBIA’S PAST AND PRESENT (1389-1917)

(Библиотека "Запис", 2013, брош, 58 стр., илустровано)

Током 1916. године, "у знак подршке храбрим Србима", формиран је у Лондону "Комитет за Дан Косова" (Kossovo Day Committee). Његовим радом руководили су др Елси Инглис и др Сетон Вотсон, док су међу члановима и сарадницима били историчари Сер Артур Еванс и Чарлс Оман, писац Г. К. Честертон, отац Николај Велимировић, проф. др Тихомир Р. Ђорђевић и многи други.

Брошура "The Lay of Kossovo: Serbia's Past and Present (1389-1917)" имала је за циљ да "у потпуности објасни идеју Косова - кључ за исправно разумевање не само историје него и поезије и цивилизације српског народа".

G. K. Chesterton: THE THING CALLED A NATION

Г. К. Честертон

The Thing Called a Nation.
The Spiritual Issue of the War. 

By G. K. Chesterton

Одломак из књиге "The Lay of Kossovo: Serbia's Past and Present" (Библиотека "Запис", 2013)

Five hundred years ago our Allies the Serbians went down in the great Battle of Kossovo, which was the end of their triumph and the beginning of their glory. For if the Serbian Empire was mortally wounded, the Serbian nation had a chance to prove itself immortal; since it is only in death that we can discover immortality. So awfully alive is that Christian thing called a nation that its very death is a living death. It is a living death which lasts a hundred times longer than any life of man; and of what it meant to the Serbians I know of no possible literary expression. The nearest words for it are found, I believe, in a Serbian proverb, which I fancy I have heard, and which I am sure is too good for me to have imagined: “God never made a heaven until He saw the sorrows of the Serbs.”

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