"A true poet for romantics is a national poet, he is an expression of the collective spirit of the people, the spokesman of its ideals, the interpreter of its spirituality and of spirituality, painter of his life, spiritual leader of the nation." (Jovan Skerlic)
The unjustly forgotten Serbian Milica Stojadinović (1830-1878), born in from the village of Bukovac in Srem, from a priest's family, emotionally attached to Vrdnik in which he is spent her childhood and youth, she was a famous poet of her time, a poetess Serbian romanticism. At the same time, she was a woman of extraordinary beauty, for whom many were interested, but who never married because her greatest love was Serbia. Alone Njegoš declared: "I sing, she sings, if I'm not a monk, here's the princess of Montenegro!"
She left behind three collections of poems and the diary U Fruska gora 1854 in three parts. Although highly appreciated and recognized in her time, Jovan Deretic is, unfortunately, in her own devoted very little space to the history of Serbian literature, considering that in its songs have more moral lessons and patriotic thoughts than real poetry. However, she he describes both his people and his homeland, first of all, with his soul. She feels patriotism. She Serbia breathes. Her songs were signed by a Serbian woman or Jedna Srbkinja. His whole life dedicated to Serbia. In a letter to Prince Mihailo Vuk's doctor, he said about her that patriotic and Serb-loving beyond all measure. Because of his first song "Mladi Srbin", which he published in the Serbian National Gazette in In Pest, it even came into conflict with the Hungarian authorities. With emphasized national with pride, wondering what kind of force is taking over our people and making them suffer constantly, the young poetess calls on the Serbian brothers to agree:
"Brother shall love his brother,
That is what God is calling the Serbs to do."