LUCIAN BLAGA – POETRY BETWEEN LIGHT AND ASHES
LUCIAN BLAGA – POETRY BETWEEN LIGHT AND ASHES

Summary/Abstract: Starting with Samuil Micu, Gheorghe Şincai and Petru Maior, then continuing with Slavici, Coşbuc, Goga, Agîrbiceanu, the Transylvanians gave a moralizing pragmatic culture and literature, put in the noble service of the national cause. With Lucian Blaga, Transylvania produces a pure poetry, of metaphysical essence, through which symbolism modernism is overtaken in a sensible way, the art of the word now being at the level of European expressionism. Blaga brings to our literature the soul of the village, the folklore, the popular beliefs, and embracing myth and history. As he rightly called Pompiliu Constantinescu, a poet of mystery, Blaga is equally, in a stated and unequivocal way, a philosopher of the mystery. This aspect is fully proved by a certain metamorphosis, from the exuberant vitalism and the evidently obvious bucolism of the first two volumes, to the existential fear and the metaphysical sadness of the Great Passage and the Praise of Sleep, then by some clarity and by a more the great freshness of a folklore that always remains substantially and never ethnographically in the water, to a superior discovery of the virtues of a cohabitation in harmony with nature.

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