Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Highland Lute" in English language version.
Fishta was not uninfluenced or unmoved by the literary achievements of the southern Slavs in the second half of the nineteenth century... the role played by Franciscan pater Grga Martic whose works served the young Fishta as a model... by the writings of an earlier Franciscan writer, Andrija Kacic-Miosic ...by the works of Croatian poet Ivan Mazhuranic... the Montenegrin poet-prince Petar Petrovic Njegos... His main work, the epic poem, Lahuta e Malcís(The highland lute), ... propagates anti-Slavic feelings and makes the struggle against the Ottoman occupants secondary.
Highland Lute, about the North Albanian tribesmen's wars with Montenegro, is under disapproval in Albania and Yugoslavia alike. This inclusiveness means that Elsie is very sparing in his critical judgements, ...
... substitution of the central motif of the fight against the Turks by that of the fight against Slavs.
The first issue of the first opposition newspaper Rilindja Demokratike in January 1991 carried the scholar Aurel Plasari's reassessment of Gjergj Fishta (1871 — 1940), the author of the epic poem "The Highland Lute." Because of Fishta s fierce anti- Slav nationalist rhetoric, the Communists prohibited his works soon after the war, during a stint of official Albanian- Yugoslav friendship; the ban remained in place for more than 40 years. Fishta was surrounded with the aura of the forbidden ...
Fishta was not uninfluenced or unmoved by the literary achievements of the southern Slavs in the second half of the nineteenth century... the role played by Franciscan pater Grga Martic whose works served the young Fishta as a model... by the writings of an earlier Franciscan writer, Andrija Kacic-Miosic ...by the works of Croatian poet Ivan Mazhuranic... the Montenegrin poet-prince Petar Petrovic Njegos... His main work, the epic poem, Lahuta e Malcís(The highland lute), ... propagates anti-Slavic feelings and makes the struggle against the Ottoman occupants secondary.
