The Mountain Wreath
Original edition | |
| Author | Petar II Petrović-Njegoš |
|---|---|
| Original title | Горскıй вıенацъ (archaic) Горски вијенац (modern) (Gorski vijenac) |
| Translator | James W. Wiles, Vasa D. Mihailovich |
| Language | Serbian |
| Publisher | Mekhitarist Monastery of Vienna (Vienna, Austrian Empire, today Austria) |
Publication date | 1847 |
| Publication place | Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro (today Montenegro) |
| ISBN | 978-1915204264 |
| OCLC | 1358747519 |
The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac) is a poem and a play 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. It is considered a masterpiece of Serbian and Montenegrin literature.