Alexandru Sihleanu (January 6, 1834–March 14, 1857) was a noted Wallachian poet,

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of politician Constantin Grădișteanu.

Biography

Born in Bucharest to ''

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'' (royal cup-bearer) Zamfirache Sihleanu and his wife, Maria Popescu, he spent his childhood at the Sihlele estate. He began school at

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, followed by Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1852, and took up but abandoned the study of law. He was high school classmates with

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, his first biographer. Sihleanu returned home in 1855, contributing to ''Concordia'' and writing verses, which he collected into his only book. Titled ''Armonii intime'' and containing 24 poems, it was published two months before his death of, as Odobescu put it, "an extraordinary disease, unknown even to doctors, a sad phenomenon of nature". Two other poems appeared posthumously, in ''Concordia'' and ''

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''. The original 1857 edition of his book appeared again in 1871, with a preface by

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; another edition came out in 1896, and Nicolae Iorga published yet another in 1909. His

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verses are of a

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cast; invoking the cosmic and the fantastic, they anticipate

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's motifs.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 561. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sihleanu, Alexandru 1834 births 1857 deaths Writers from Bucharest Romanian male poets Romantic poets 19th-century Romanian poets 19th-century male writers Writers from the Principality of Wallachia