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Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu

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contribution to Romanian literature

  • Vacarescu, Ienachita
    In Romanian literature: The 18th century

    Alecu’s father, Ienăchiƫă, a moralist poet, also wrote the first Romanian grammar, while his son Iancu, the father of Romanian poetry, overshadowed his predecessors with his poems. The fourth poet of the Văcărescu family was Nicolae. The lyric tradition was carried on in Walachia by B.P. Mumuleanu.

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Văcărescu family

  • Vacarescu, Ienachita
    In Văcărescu Family

    Ienăchiţă (1740–99), after traveling and studying in St. Petersburg and Vienna, wrote poems inspired by Russian folk songs. He wrote the first Romanian grammar book (Gramatica românească, 1787). His chief poems, Amărîtă turturea (“Sad Turtledove”) and Testamentul, reveal a high artistic level and a mastery…

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