VOLUMUL MEDITAŢII POETICE (MÉDITATIONS POÉTIQUES) DE ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE ŞI AFIRMAREA MEDITAŢIEI ÎN LIRICA ROMÂNEASCĂ PRE-EMINESCIANĂ
Alphonse de Lamartine’s MÉDITATIONS POÉTIQUES and the concept of méditation in the Romanian pre-eminescian lyrics

Author(s): Maria Abramciuc
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Vasiliana ’98
Summary/Abstract: The appearance of the volume Poetic Meditations (1820)written by Alphonse Lamartine determined the promotion of a style with iradiant effects in the most lyrical areas of the Europeof those times. Very soon, the lamartinian model is imposed inthe european literature as a founding model generating after1830 a modification of register in the Romanian literature whichas is known was at an initial stage. Tangencies with the Frenchromantic poetry can be easily detected in the forty-eighter lyricera. The sensibility of Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Vasile Cârlova,Grigore Alexandrescu, Dimitrie Bolintineanu and others resonated at the pulsations of the lamartinian verse, with its nostalgic inflections , an augmented sense of the nature and the cosmic. One thing is certain, that the lamartinian recipe became more and more useful for the above-mentioned Romanian poets who recurred to it in the absence of a vernacular poetic model.The promotion of this lyric concept ocurred due to the translation by Ion Heliade Radulescu of a number of meditations from the lamartinian volume, which accelerated the adoption of the stylistic formula by the Romanian poets of the first romantic wave and the rapid evolution of meditation which compared to some pre-modern compositions is contouring its form,amplifying the themes and multiplying the imagistic structures.Right from its inception, the Romanian meditation followed the dominant paradigms of the lamartinian model, productive to the extent that one author or another learned and accepted it. The strong resonances which the volume Poetic Meditations has produced in the artistic awareness and the sensitivity of the forty-eighters poets were felt immediately: Le Son, L’isolement,Le Lac, Le Golfe de Baya, L’ Automne and others became models for Romanian authors, the poets taking the lyrical schemes, thematic and image registers, the mood, the manners of artistic representation, the musicality of the forms etc., which led to the imposition of a meditative formula in the pre-eminescian lyrics, illustrated by the experience of profound melancholy, the mood of sorrow and pain. The contemplative predisposition of the the lyrical instance, this position of a damned ,the subjectivity that addresses the landscape elements often made up by mountains, forests and water – all descended explicitly in Lamartine.

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