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Occasional poetry is an important part of literary production of Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). It was reflected on by the literary historian Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998) in his works focused on literature written at the turn of the 19th century or in his monograph Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). Život a dielo/Bohuslav Tablic (1769 – 1832). Life and Work/ published in 1974. He did not exclude the occasional poetry as a peculiar or even inferior group of writings without a notable message but he attributed it an important function and a significant role in forming the poetic profile of Bohuslav Tablic as well as Slovak literature of that time. The synthesis of Brtáň´s assessments of B. Tablic´s occasional poetry along with the results of the contemporary analyses of individual poetic texts form the basis for this paper that concentrates on defining the development of Tablic´s poetic means of expression in this particular type of poetic production featuring a distinct updating dimension, where the up-to-date nature alone was a guarantee of certain attractiveness. Although the results of the contemporary research make it necessary to reassess some of R. Brtáň´s conclusions, several of his findings, especially the starting position of respect for occasional poetry, remain an important impulse for further literary historical analyses and interpretations of Tablic´s work as a whole.