Însemnări despre estetica artei poetice
Notes on the Aestethics of Poetic Art (Edited Text and Abstract by Ionuţ Isac)

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the manuscripts elaborated by the Professor Dumitru Isac on the themes of the aesthetics of the poetic art reveals the fact that it represented one of his major theoretical preoccupations for almost two decades. The approximation of the period they were drafted, depending on the indicated bibliography, certain data conjecturally indicated, as well as by comparison to other works, published or unedited, focuses on the interval comprised between the second part of the years 1950 and the beginning of the years 1970. But, either we take into consideration vast works, destined to be published (as the PhD thesis from 1971, entitled The Beauty to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle), either it is about shorter texts – as the one published hereof below –, appeared as current notes, destined to stay at this level, the complete master of the subject, the analytical effort and the synthesis attempt are immediately highlighted. Notes on the Aesthetics of Poetic Art (the title does not belong to the author, but it is one that we considered appropriate for the complex of thoughts on aesthetic themes to see the light of the print nowadays) may be interpreted as equal “stages” of an “essentialist” approach – meaning the difficult journey, cluttered with numerous obstacles, towards the understanding of an implicit essence of the lyric poetry. We consider that, in an ingrate ideological period, when the political factor impregnated any social life field, the perseverant search of certain arguments in favour of the identification of the specificity of the lyrical poetry, both in the Eastern critical literature and in the Western one, represented the trend towards the reach of a maximal objectivity level, although the results of the research may not be published at that time. Thus, “the short form” of certain “working” texts re-confirms, at its turn, the high exigencies of the teacher and the researcher Dumitru Isac, confessed directly by his former students and collaborators.

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