Abstract
The national revival in Bulgarian literature (1762-1878) is divided into three main stages: 1st The Early Revival (1762-1820's) - (P. Khilendarski, his contemporaries and S.
Vrachanski); 2nd The Genuine Revival (1820's-1856) - the period of cultural growth and the birth of Bulgarian enlightenment. At this period Bulgarian education took shape, there were debates about the use of language in literature, periodicals and literary oeuvres emerge and the struggle for the autonomy of the Bulgarian church became a national question; 3rd Prime Revival (1856-1878) - the prevailing genre syncretism was overcome and Bulgarian poetry was consolidated (D.
Chintulov, G. S.
Rakovski, P. R.
Slaveykov, mystification Veda Slovena, N. Kozlev, I.
Vazov), drama (D. Voynikov, V.
Drumev) even artistic prose appeared, with the exception of the novel (V. Popovich, V.
Drumev, I. R.
Blăskov, L. Karavelov).
The 1870's brought about artistic critique (N. Bonchev) and Bulgarian revolution emigres turned literature into revolutionary journalism and distinctive poetry (L.
Karavelov, Kh. Botev).