 In his early poems, Bevk was influenced by the vitalist poetry of Oton Župančič and Maurice Maeterlinck.After the experience of World War I, he came under the influence of Christian expressionism which represented a strong literary and artistic current in interwar Slovenia.Some of its most talented representatives, such as the poet Joža Lovrenčič and Ivan Pregelj, came from Bevk's native region of Goriška.