In the present essay, I investigate the influence exerted by the German philosophers Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841) and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) on the first theory of poetry in the history of Romanian literature. ...

The present chapter analyzes the longstanding impact of Hugo Friedrichs The Structure of Modern Poetry (1956) on Romanian culture, where it became a genuine Bible for poetry criticism. This success owed primarily to two ...

While the Anglo-Saxon intertext is the most clear one in Mircea Ivănescu’s poetry, the French and German intertexts are at least as present and fertile. Proust and Camus, on the one hand, and Rilke and Goethe, on the other, ...