The Beginning of the 20th Century. Romanian Poets’ Contact with Walt Whitman’s Poetry Cover Image

Început de secol XX. Contacte ale poeţilor români cu poezia lui Walt Whitman
The Beginning of the 20th Century. Romanian Poets’ Contact with Walt Whitman’s Poetry

Author(s): Gabriela HECTOR
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Romanian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: poetry; unity; diversity; tangency; originality;

Summary/Abstract: In the first decades of the 20th Century, in the Romanian literary environment were searched formulas that outlined the ‟poetry of new poetry”. Very different, their framing in the single paradigm was not possible, unity being realized, but by diversity. Both Tudor Arghezi and Lucian Blaga, the poets reffered to this article, found such formulas and, moreover, they gave their poetry a poetic art. In Arghezi, being a Bucharest origin with Gorj roots, dominates the infuence of Ch. Baudelaire, while Blaga, being Transylvanian, tends to German expressionism. The influences of the great literatures have found in the aspiration of the two Romanians to originality, a favorable environment, and, ennobled by their personal filters, have acquired the glory of authenticity. There is a tangent in their creation, and this is the American W. Whitman. His controversial poetry awakened interest in the workers movements that have grown since the late nineteenth Century and stood among the preferences of the symbolist Stephen Petică. And the question arises: ‟What artistic spark did Walt Whitman kindle to the two great Romanian poets Tudor Arghezi and Lucian Blaga?”. A question to which this article is intended to be an answer.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 147-153
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian