Despite the national recognition expressed in awarding him the prestigious 1970 Israel Prize for Literature , along with the much admired and by then deceased Lea Goldberg , Abba Kovner was never perceived as a leading or central Israeli poet . His relatively marginal position resulted primarily from his exceptional 1 biography as a holocaust survivor , almost totally unknown–before 1947 –to the well-established Mandatory Palestine Hebrew literary circles , and from his poetic deviations that were shaped outside the stylistic framework established by the literary moderns such as Avraham Shlonsky and Nathan Alterman , mainly expressed in his maximalist reach , archaic figures of speech , and a tendency towards lengthy structures . The book is a study of the poetical conditions and origins that combined to mold the peculiar nature of Abba Kovner’s poetry . Born in 1918 ( in Svastopol , Crimea ) and reaching full maturity in Vilna , an intersection of several languages and cultures , Kovn...
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