| Title: | Horace and the modernist poets |
| Author: | Dana Dinu |
| Publication: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, IX (1) |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
| Publisher: | Valahia University Press |
| Place: | Târgoviște |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | On a background of aesthetical searches of the beginning of the 20th century, dominated by mainly modernist tendencies, Horace maintains his place in the preferences of some Romanian poets. But in most of their works his traces are rather diffuse, transformed, perhaps involuntarily. In the group of poets around the main literary reviews Literatorul (The Litterateur) and Viaţa nouă (The New Life), promoters and theoreticians of a new poetry, we also find translators of Horace’s work, like Al. T. Stamatiad, sprouted from the Macedonski circle. Macedonski himself, the dean of the Romanian poets of the day, is a kind of Janus, in the words of N. Manolescu, of the aesthetics, because he equally looks towards the past and the future. The Horatian influence could be suspected in Macedonski’s nostalgia for his parents’estate, home of his childhood, both lost forever, as he writes in Mângâierea dezmoştenirii II (The Comfort of Disinheritance). Also Horatian in a way is his trust in his destiny of poet, expressed in his poem Epigraf (Epigraph). Duiliu Zamfirescu is Horatian in his preference for neoclassical forms and his philosophy with Epicurean notes, as well a Horatian perception of time, like in his poem Acum (Now). Another poet of Horatian inflections is Pompiliu Păltânea, who translated the Satires, despite being the theoretician of symbolism at Viaţa nouă (New Life). |
| Key words: | Horace, classicism, neoclassicism, modernism, symbolism, influence, reception |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 54, 2011). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2011 | LR, LXI (4), 437-576 | 2012 | pdf html |
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