Viziunea paradisului la Dante și la Ioan Alexandru
The vision of paradise in Dante and Ioan Alexandru

Summary/Abstract: Conceived and delivered as a conference this incursion into the poetry of Ion Alexandru in a juxtaposition to Dante’s poetry emphasizes that precisely the religious poetry constitutes the climax of Ion Alexandru’s work. Since both poets cited here are religious, the original interpretation of the author proposes to evaluate it as not only interesting or welcome, but even justified and significant. A comparison between the vision of Paradise in Dante’s poetry and that of Ioan Alexandru’s poetry, nowadays, 25 years after the passing of the Romanian poet into eternity offers the opportunity to reflect upon religious poetry as a monument of human nature (nostra effige). Dante Alighieri is one of the world’s greatest poets and certainly the greatest Christian poet. Unlike him, Ioan Alexandru is little read or known, and even disregarded by most critics in his homeland. Nevertheless, this interpretation finds interesting and sufficient grounds for joining the two poets.

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