LITERARY LANGUAGE FEATURES AND GENRE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FIRST LETTER IN BULGARIAN REVIVAL POETRY

Abstract

In this paper, I examine Alexios’s farewell letter to his parents and his bride, as displayed in the poem The Life of Saint Alexios the Man of God (1833) written by Konstantin Ognjanović. The specificities of the Slavo- Bulgarian type of Bulgarian literary language in the first half of the 19th century as represented in the letter in question are analyzed as well. In addition, I also aim to reveal the genre characteristics of Alexios’s letter.