Vojislav Ilić

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Vojislav Ilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Војислав Илић) (1862 - 1894) was a 19th century Serbian poet of finely chiselled verse, son of a Romanticist playwright and poet Jovan Ilić.

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), times of Elagabalus (a minor emperor who ruled for just 3 and a half years, known primarily for his sexual extravagance), men falling in love with statues of goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome and the like.