Poetry
Poezii alese
Not translated into English
Iancu Văcărescu · 1830
Synopsis
The author's first collection of verse, a brochure of some sixty pages published by Ion Heliade Rădulescu. It includes Le Printemps de l'amour, written, according to Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică, around 1817, at the time of a great passion: in it Cupid leads the poet through a conventional nocturnal landscape, in which ruins already appear, according to Ana-Elena Costandache. The same study hears in his love verses the echo of Sappho, Anacreon and Lamartine, and notes idylls peopled with satyrs and nymphs.
Context
According to Bogdan-Duică, the booklet was announced by the Albina românească in July 1830, and the love poem of 1817 had the same effect there as at its first reading, a dozen years earlier. A much larger collection, the Colecţie din poeziile of the grand logothete, followed in 1848. Its author is credited with having opened modern Romanian poetry, and Ana-Elena Costandache sees in him the only poet of his family to belong to the new spirit; his father and his grandfather had written before him.
Who it is for
A slim collection of verse in Romanian from the beginning of the nineteenth century, with no known French translation.
Prizes and reception
Britannica calls its author the most important writer of a family that gave Romanian literature its first poets.
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