a Serbian poet, painter, writer, dramatist, bohemian and patriot. Jakšic is one of the most expressive representatives of Serbian Romanticism. Passionate, impetuously imaginative, emotional, rebellious and imbued with romantic nationalist sentiment, his poems about freedom, his invectives against tyranny and his verses of lyric confession resonate with romantic pathos. He saw and painted Kosovo, Battle of Montenegris, and Night Watch. Visions which will resurface in his verse little by little, here and there. Both in his poetry and paintings, the purpose of Jakšics art was primarily moral.
