Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1544989 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: Romanian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 247 pages

Synopsis
Published to mark the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Romania's national poet, this edition of the works of Mihai Eminescu contains a selection of the best English-language renditions of poems and prose by this remarkable cultural figure of nineteenth-century Romania. Eminescu (1850-1889) was a complex personality; at once a philosopher, politician, journalist, and prose writer, but above all a poet -- he is 'an expression of the Romanian soul'. The selection in this volume includes English language versions of some of Eminescu's best-known poems and is illustrated with original drawings by the Romanian artist A Bordenache and graphics from the princeps edition of Eminescu's poems published in 1883.

Customer Reviews

Romania's most celebrated poet, all in one book!
Mihai Eminescu is Europe's last Romantic poet - an exquisite blend of wilderness of heart, Romanian folklore and Indian philosophy. For the international reader, this book offers a taste of Romania's peculiar culture: Eminescu speaks of love and death, of material poverty and spiritual wealth, of using your mind's eye to turn the world into a pearl, holding it into the palm of your hand. He sings his childhood forrest and murmuring springs, the sea and the waves, his inspiration - the moon.

Eminescu's book is a necessary asset of any true lover of Romantic poetry.

The Keats, the Byron, and the Shelley of Roumania, all in one.
The previous reviewer, while providing some useful basic information, severely understates the importance of Eminescu. He is worth learning the language for. Had he written in a "world" language, he would be classed in the top 30 poets of all time in all languages. Buy his works !