PRIMA NOASTRA POETA (una crestina si naiva)
Our first poetess (a Christian and naive one)
Author(s): Alex CistelecanSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Petru Maior
Keywords: Xenia Iordachi Hagiu; religious poetry; nun; spontaneity; naivety; hymnal fervor
Summary/Abstract: The essay throws a critical and esthetical light on a manuscript dating from 1826, which was recently put into circulation, and which contains the poems of the nun Xenia Iordachi Hagiu. After a biographical overview and a brief panorama of the historical context, the essay underlines the proper qualities of Xenia’s poems: their naivety and imaginative spontaneity, the fluency of versification, the candor of the dialectal language and its aphoristic standing.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2012
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 5-9
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Romanian