Gitana Vanagaitė

The Significance of Imagination in Becoming a Nation: Poetry in Late Nineteenth- Century Lithuanian Newspapers Aušra and Varpas

This article examines the role of poetry published in the late nineteenth-century Lithuanian monthly periodicals Aušra (The Dawn, 1883– 1886) and Varpas (The Bell, 1889–1905) in shaping modern Lithuanian national consciousness. Although Aušra has traditionally been interpreted within the paradigm of Romanticism, the ar...