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Romanian Poets
The following is a list of famous or notable Romanian language poets grouped by period of activity (years link to corresponding " earin poetry" articles): The beginnings * Gheorghe Asachi (1788–1869) *Vasile Cârlova (1809–1832) * Dosoftei (1624–1693) * Anton Pann (1794–1854) * Ienăchiță Văcărescu (1740–1797) * Alecu Văcărescu (1769– 1799) Classical Age * Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890) *Grigore Alexandrescu (1810–1885) * George Coșbuc (1866–1918) *Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889) * Octavian Goga (1881– 1938) *Ștefan Octavian Iosif (1875–1913) * Alexandru Macedonski (1854–1920) * Veronica Micle (1850–1889) * Andrei Mureșanu ( 1816–1863) *Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802–1872) *Constantin Stamati (1786–1869) *Carmen Sylva (1843– 1916) Interwar period *Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967) * George Bacovia (1881–1955) *Ion Barbu (1859–1961) * Lucian Blaga (1895–1961 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Language
Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește'', ) is the official and main language of Romania and the Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania (Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 28–29 million people as an L1+ L2, of whom 23–24 millions are native speakers. In Europe, Romanian is rated as a medium level language, occupying the tenth position among thirty-seven official languages. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called ''Daco-Romanian'' as opposed to its closest r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alecu Văcărescu
Alecu Văcărescu (1769–1798) was a Romanian Wallachian boyar and poet, a member of the Văcărescu family that gave Romanian literature its first poets. In 1796 a collection of his poems appeared in Romania. He died as a prisoner in Istanbul in 1798. His son, Iancu Văcărescu, was also a poet. See also *Văcărescu family The House of Văcărescu was a boyar family of Wallachia (now part of Romania). According to tradition, it is one of the oldest noble families in Wallachia. Notable members * Enache Văcărescu (1654–1714) grand treasurer of Wallachia (killed ... References 1769 births 1798 deaths 18th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets Alecu 18th-century male writers {{Romania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1850 In Poetry
— From Cantos 27 and 56, '' In Memoriam A.H.H.'', by Alfred Tennyson, published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May (late) – Alfred Tennyson's poem '' In Memoriam A.H.H.'', written to commemorate the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam in 1833, is published by Edward Moxon in London; on June 1 the writer's anonymity is broken by ''The Publishers' Circular'' * June 13 – Alfred Tennyson marries his childhood friend Emily Sellwood at Shiplake * July – William Wordsworth's '' The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem'', on which he has worked since 1798, is first published about 3 months after his death by Edward Moxon in London in 14 books, with the title supplied by the poet's widow, Mary; originally intended to form the introduction to ''The Recluse'', for which ''The Excursion'' (1814) formed the second part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu (; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and worked as an editor for the newspaper '' Timpul'' ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918). His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna, Austria to study when he was 19. The poet's manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902. Notable works include '' Luceafărul'' (''The Vesper/The Evening Star/The Lucifer/The Daystar''), ''Odă în metru antic'' (''Ode in Ancient Meter''), and the five ''Letters'' (''Epistles/Satires''). In his poems, he frequently used metaphysical, mythological and historical subjects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in ''The Nation''). * April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in ''New Youth'' proposing a four-point reform program. * June — English poet Basil Bunting is imprisoned as a conscientious objector. * August 17 — English poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon meet for the last time, in London, and spend what Sassoon later describes as "the whole of a hot cloudless afternoon together." * November 4 — English war poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action, age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Charles Baudelaire's collection ''Les Épaves'' is published in Belgium containing poems suppressed from ''Les Fleurs du mal'' (Paris, 1857) for outraging public morality. His poems also appear in the first anthology by the "Parnassians", ''Le Parnasse contemporain'', published this year. *Giuseppe Gioachino Belli's sonnets in the Romanesco dialect of Rome (''Sonetti Romaneschii'', mostly written in the 1830s) are first published, posthumously in an expurgated selection by his son Ciro. *First publications by the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, aged 16: In January Romanian teacher Aron Pumnul dies and his students in Cernăuţi publish a pamphlet, ''Lăcrămioarele învățăceilor gimnaziaști'' ("Tears of the Gymnasium Students") in which a poem entitled "La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul" ("At the Grave of Aron Pumnul") appears, signed "M. Eminovici"; on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Coșbuc
George Coșbuc (; 20 September 1866 – 9 May 1918) was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy. In 1916 he was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Early life Coșbuc was born in Hordou, a village in northeastern Transylvania. His father, Sebastian Coșbuc, a Greek Catholic priest looked up to by his parish, drew from a line reputed to have yielded fourteen consecutive generations of priests. George attended primary school and graduated to secondary classes in the neighboring village of Telcs (''now: Telciu''). He happily took to the scholarly bent encouraged by his father, earning the praise of instructors and being chosen among the few who were to sign up for advanced courses at ''Liceul Românesc'' (Romanian Lyceum), a higher learning academy in the town of Năsăud. He soon found himself doubling as teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish ''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette'', a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement. Works published in English Canada * Frederick George Scott, ''Justin and Other Poems''. Published at author's expense. United Kingdom * Maude Ashurst Biggs, ''Master Thaddeus'', first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, ''Pan Tadeusz'' (1834) * Robert Bridges, ''Eros and Psyche'' * Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), ''Literary Remains'' * Jean Ingelow, ''Poems: Third Series'' (see also ''Poems'' 1863, ''Poems'' 1880) * William Morris, ''Chants for Socialists'' * Robert Louis Stevenson, ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' * Algernon Charles Swinburne, ''Marino Faliero'' * Edwin Arnold, ''The Song Celestial'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Tiresi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1810 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *April 10 – Percy Bysshe Shelley matriculates at University College, Oxford. In September, he publishes through J. J. Stockdale in London '' Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire'' co-written with his sister Elizabeth before he came up to Oxford, but withdrawn due to plagiarism of one poem; and in November he and his friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg publish the burlesque '' Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson; Being Poems found amongst the Papers of that Noted Female who attempted the Life of the King in 1786'' "Edited by John Fitzvictor" in Oxford. Two Gothic novellas by him are also published anonymously this year in London. Works published United Kingdom * Lucy Aikin, ''Epistles on Women''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Sir Alexander Boswell, writing under the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigore Alexandrescu
Grigore Alexandrescu (; 22 February 1810, Târgovişte – 25 November 1885 in Bucharest) was a nineteenth-century Romanian poet and translator noted for his fables with political undertones. He founded a periodical, ''Albina Româneascǎ''. Alexandrescu wrote ''Poezii'' (1832, 1838, 1839) and ''Meditaţii'' (1863), many of which were fables and satires influenced by French literature. Retrieved on March 18, 2008 Works (summary) * ''Poezii'' (1832) * ''Fabule'' (1832) * ''Meditații'' (1835) * ''Poezii'' (1838) * ''Fabule'' (1838) * ''Poezii'' (1839) * ''Memorial'' (1842) * ''Poezii'' (1842) * ''Suvenire și impresii, epistole și fabule'' (1847) * ''Meditații, elegii, epistole, satire și fabule'' (1863)References Externa ...
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1890 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes * Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust. Works published in English United Kingdom * Richard Garnett, ''Iphigenia in Delphi'' * W. S. Gilbert, ''Songs of a Songbird'' * Rudyard Kipling, "Danny Deever", first of the Barrack-Room Ballads * William McGonagall, ''Poetic Gems'' * Walter Pater, ''Appreciations with an Essay on Style'' * Mary F. Robinson, ''The New Arcadia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1821 In Poetry
— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The ''Saturday Evening Post'' founded in PhiladelphiaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * Lord Byron writes ''Sardanapalus'', ''The Two Foscari'' and ''Cain'' * Percy Bysshe Shelley's '' Queen Mab: a philosophical poem'' (1813) is distributed by an unauthorized publisher in London leading to prosecution by the Society for the Prevention of Vice. * At about this date Sunthorn Phu is imprisoned and begins his epic poem ''Phra Aphai Mani''. Works published in English United Kingdom * Edwin Atherstone, ''The Last Days of Herculaneum''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
