"Your Song Sounds Sweet to us" - Vavák's Answer to a Song for the Name Day of Jan Nejedlý, Doctor of Laws and Imperial and Royal Full and Tenured Professor of Czech Literature at the Ancient University in Prague

Abstract

The study compares the text of a cantata composed in 1811 by V. Hanka, a representative of the Czech National Revival, and a rhymed response to it written by F.

J. Vavák, a farmer rooted in the traditions of the Czech Baroque patriotism.

Keywords

• František Jan Vavák (1741–1816)
• Václav Hanka (1791–1861)
• occasional poetry
• cantata
• syllabotonic verse
• syllabic verse
• National Revival
• secularisation
• Baroque patriotism