Marcel Romanescu (October 11, 1897–1956) was a

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n poet. Born in

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, he attended primary school in

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and

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; he went to high schools in Craiova,

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and at Dealu Monastery. In 1920, he obtained a degree in law and philosophy from the University of Bucharest. He served as attaché to the legation at the Vatican from 1921 to 1923, and was legation secretary at Warsaw (1923-1925) and at The Hague from 1925. He headed ''România'' magazine at Rome in 1921, and ''Flamura'' at Craiova from 1926 to 1929. From 1915, he published in the Bucharest-based '' Flacăra'', subsequently contributing to ''Viața literară și artistică'' (at Craiova), ''Ramuri'', ''Lumină nouă'', ''Solia'', ''România de mâine'', ''Zorile'', ''Glasul Bucovinei'', ''

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'', ''Adevărul literar și artistic'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Mișcarea literară'' and ''Universul literar''. His first book, the 1923 ''Isvoare limpezi'', was billed as including "sonnets and poems". He also published ''Cuiburi în soare'' (1926), ''Hermanosa din Corint. Povestea unei hetaire'' (1927) and ''Grădina lui Teocrit'' (1928). He wrote a version of the Song of Songs in 1925, as well as translating

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and

Sigbjørn Obstfelder Sigbjørn Obstfelder (21 November 1866 – 29 July 1900) was a 19th-century Norwegian writer and poet. Background Obstfelder was born in Stavanger, Norway on November 21, 1866. He was the eighth child in a family of sixteen children, being o ...

. His poetry was Neoclassical, with certain affinities linking it to the motifs and rhythms of

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and

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.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 226-27. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Romanescu, Marcel 1897 births 1956 deaths University of Bucharest alumni Romanian male poets Sonneteers Romanian translators Romanian magazine editors Romanian diplomats Neoclassical writers 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century translators Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Romanian expatriates in Belgium Romanian expatriates in France