Romanian Poetry Resources

 

Learning Romanian

A peculiarity of Romanian poetry is its language, which is a Romance language, close to classical Latin but with some Slavonic words. There are several free Internet sites to help: romanian resources, word2word, phrasebase, easy Romanian and Romanian lessons.

For commercial courses consider dictionare, unforgettable, multilingual, almudo, pimsleur or worldwidelearn.

A brief history of Romania can be found on rotravel, domino and romania.org.

Romanian-English-Romanian online dictionaries are at castingsnet, dictionare, word2word, language resource and your dictionary.

Some useful language exchanges: friends abroad, xlingo, mylanguage exchange, polyglot learn language, and lingozone.

Romanian Poetry

Anthologies of Romanian poetry are listed at pigeon, netstore, amazon, mystery bookstore and eminesca cd.

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993) has a good introduction to Romanian poetry, and these critical studies may be useful: V. Ierunca's Litterature Roumaine (1956), C. Ciopraga's La Personnnalité de la Litterature Roumaine (1975) and V. Nemoianu's The Real Romanian Revolution (1991). Older anthologies of Romanian poetry include D. Tappe's Romanian Prose and Verse (1956), R. McGregor-Hastie's Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry (1969) and S. Avadenei and D. Eulert's 46 Romanian Poets in English (1973).

Sites on older Romanian writers are as follows: Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Grigore Alexandrescu, Vasile Alecsandri, Alexandru Macedonski, Ion Minulescu, George Cosbuc, Octavian Goga, Stefan Iosif, George Bacovia, Lucian Blaga, Tudor Arghezi, Ion Pillat, Adrian Maniu and Aron Cotrus.

Later figures: Tristan Tzara, Benjamin Fondane, Ilarie Voronca, Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Camil Baltazar and Ion Vinea, Vintila Horia, Stefan Baciu, Ion Caraion, Geo Dumitrescu, Constantine Tonegaru, Radu Stanca, Ion Negoitescu, Stefan Doinas, Nichita Stanescu, Ioan Alexandru, Ion Gheorghe, Mircea Ivanescu, Leonid Dimov, Marin Sorescu, Sorin Marculescu, Ana Blandiana, Ileana Malancioiu, Mircea Dinescu, Dorin Tudoran, Mircea Cartarescu, Florin Iaru and Ion Stratan.

Contemporary Romanian poetry sites include: poezie, poezii de dragoste and poezii pentru copii.

Eminescu

Information on Eminescu is available at fa-kuan, lassy and ce review.

Translations of Eminescu's work are online at fa-kuan, jeanloup, luceafarul and arlindo_correia.

 

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