In 1830, young poets united around Matija Čop and France Prešeren and, under the editorship of Miha Kastelec, began to publish the Kranjska čbelica poetry collection in the Slovenian language, with the aim of bringing the Slovenian language closer to educated people and townspeople. The publication met with resistance from Jernej Kopitar, who, due to his close collaboration with Vuk Karadžić, became enthusiastic about heroic Serbian poetry. Thus, a collision of the ‘young’ and the ‘old’ took place, which led to a deepening of the dispute over the Slovenian alphabet.
Four volumes of Kranjska čbelica were published during Matija Čop's lifetime, in which Čop acted as a censor in the publication of this important Slovenian publication.
