Aur sterp. Avatarurile receptării critice

Abstract

The text aims to examine the two phases of the reception of Al. Philippide’s debut volume, the one from 1922–1923 (after his appearance) and the one from 1939, which occurred when the poet’s third volume of verse, Dreams in the Roar of Time, was published. Thus, the predominance of negative judgments in the first phase is highlighted, which raises the question whether this fact did not determine the “silence” of the poet for 6-7 years and, then, the departure from the poetic ways of the volume Barren Gold and the return to romanticism and to “a classicism of essences” (G. Călinescu). In the second phase, occasioned by the appearance of the volume Dreams in the Roar of Time, the critics who welcomed him (Vladimir Streinu, G. Călinescu, Șerban Cioculescu, Pompiliu Constantinescu, etc.) noted a major “evolution” in Philippide’s poetry, but at the same time, assigned a certain value to the debut volume, a position that all exegetes dealing with the writer’s work after 1965 will also have.

Keywords

• symbolism
• expressionism
• “image modernism”
• “image sport”
• “an acute intoxication of images”
• “image industry”
• the poetic image
• goal in itself
• the formative purpose of criticism
• the lack of lyricism and of emotionality in poetry
• “evolution” in poetry
• old poetry
• a museum object