Poetry
Doine și Lăcrămioare
Not translated into English
Vasile Alecsandri · 1853
Synopsis
The volume, printed in Paris in 1853, brings together poems written from 1842 to 1852 in several cycles. The doïnas draw on folk songs: according to ProTV, the author had discovered this poetry on a journey in 1842 through the mountains of Moldavia. The Lăcrămioare, lilies of the valley, are love poems dedicated to Elena Negri, whom he loved from 1845 and who died in 1847; they speak of mourning and regret. The Suvenire, memories, form a third group.
Context
According to ProTV, verses from these cycles had appeared as early as 1844 in the weekly Propășirea. The book came out with the Parisian printer De Soye et Bouchet, in the same year as the second volume of the popular poetry collected by the author, the first of which dates from 1852. A second edition appeared in 1863, and the critical edition of the Romanian Academy, in 1965, brought these cycles together with the Mărgăritărele.
Who it is for
Lyric poems in Romanian, to be read by cycles; the volume has no known French translation.
Prizes and reception
Britannica counts it among his lyrical collections, before the Pasteluri, landscape poems published from 1868 to 1875.
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