Dr Stanko Janežič, a professor of ecumenism, was an important literary artist with a rich opus of prose and poetry. Romar s kitaro [Pilgrim and his Guitar] (1951) was his poetic debut, and Med zemljo in nebom [In Between Earth and the Sky] (2010) was his last collection before he died. The author of the text that depicts Janežič’s journey in poetry was the artist’s friend and confidant from the 1980s. He followed the artist’s poetic works and wrote a few forewords for his poetry collections. This is why this discussion is not merely a scientific insight into Janežič’s poetry opus but describes human ties which developed into a genuine friendship. The focus of the discussion are the qualities of Janežič’s poetry, and especially its fundamental conceptual circles, namely religious poetry, patriotic poetry as an echo to pivotal historic events, and reflexive and intimate poetry in which the poet put in the foreground his life path along with its challenges and his view of the world. The peculiarities and aesthetic quality of Janežič’s poetry are represented by extracts from poems from all three conceptual circles
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