GRIGORE ALEXANDRESCU – POETUL PEREGRIN
Grigore Alexandrescu - the Thoughtful Pilgrim

Summary/Abstract: Considered by the critics the writer whose works are representative for the level at which our modern literature was at that time and for the capacity of the Romanian language and the artistic language to express the ideas and feelings of an artist, Grigore Alexandrescu has also the merit to impose in our literature species like meditation, epistle or satire. In the summer of 1842, Grigore Alexandrescu, together with his friend Ion Ghica, travels to the River Olt Valley and Subcarpathian Oltenia. Under the influence of the beauty of landscapes and monuments, of those places full of history, he wrote a Travel Journal, but also some poems, which, in fact, remained representative for his artistic creation, such as Umbra lui Mircea. La Cozia (The shadow of Mircea. At Cozia), Răsăritul lunei. La Tismana (The Moonrise. At Tismana), Mormintele. La Drăgășani (The Tombs. At Drăgăşani). Our work intends to be a presentation of these three poems written under the influence of the travel impressions, remarkable is the fact that, born at Târgoviște, the citadel that has known glory in the past, Gr. Alexandrescu often renders in his creations the image of ruins filled with spiritual charge, seen not with a desolate feeling of the irreversible change of time, but as a glorification of the past and a model for the next generations.

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