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Krvavé sonety

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Krvave Sonety ("Bloody Sonnets") is one of the most important works of the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav.

In this work he expresses his opposition to World War I. For these poems he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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