THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VASILE ALECSANDRI’S POETRY
THE CRITICAL RECEPTION OF VASILE ALECSANDRI’S POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Those who have studied Alecsandri’s literary work – professional writers, historians and literary critics, described him as: ‹‹a great citizen writer, deeply involved in the problems of the social- political, cultural and literary life of the epoch, a member of Junimea Literary Group of 1848››, as Garabet Ibrăileanu justly states, ‹‹the head of our poetry›› (T. Maiorescu), ‹‹a great creator in his literary domain›› (B.P. Hașdeu), ‹‹a reader and a bard›› (Al. Vlahuță), ‹‹a wise and a great national poet›› (M. Dragomirescu), and G. Munteanu supports the fact that ‹‹the writer born in Mircești, essentially remains a poet››. Up to Mihai Eminescu’s affirmation, Vasile Alecsandri, ‹‹this exemplary consciousness of our nation and our literature›› (A. Martin), was, perhaps, the most complete writer that the Romanian literature had ever had, at the stage of the development on the great and modern coordinates, given by the Introduction of the ‹‹Dacia Literară›› magazine. His varied literary work, with essential values, penetrated by a profound and justified militantism, is not only the product of his epoch, but it is also the expression of his personality. Vasile Alecsandri’s literary work reception had along the years well-defined stages, which could be easily distinguished through a spontaneous and partial manner of interpretation of his writings, starting with the first eulogies inserted in the ‹‹Danube Star›› (1856) up to 1881. It is the epoch of enthusiasm and admiration almost unanimously, when the bard from Mircești is considered as a king of our poetry. His prestige, as it is stated in the articles published in various magazines of the time, is due to the appreciation of his substantial contribution to the development of the Romanian literature and culture, as well as the important part he performed in the main social and political events, which put the basis of modern Romania.

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