Vojislav Ilić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vojislav Ilić

Serbian poet

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1862

Place of Birth: Belgrade, Belgrade District

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1894

Profession: poet

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Vojislav Ilic (Serbian Cyrillic: ???????? ????; 14 April 1860 – 21 January 1894) was a Serbian poet, known for his finely chiseled verse. Ilic failed to complete his college education and was forced to take various clerical positions of minor importance.
Living for the most part in penury, he wrote poetry extensively and soon became the leading Serbian poet in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
As many Serbian artists of that era, he died young, of tuberculosis, in 1894. His poetry exemplifies a classic example of modern Serbian language and features the standard Decadent motifs of the epoch: cruel nature (e.g.
cold wind blowing across empty fields), and the times of Elagabalus.