Eminescu’s cosmogony

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XVII) / 2024 The Image of Light in Eminescu’s Poetry (II) Professor, PhD Nicolae Georgescu

This article analyses the role of punctuation in determining the meaning of key passages in Eminescu’s posthumous poetry, drawing on manuscripts, publications in Convorbiri literare, the Almanahul România Jună and the Maiorescu editions. The cases discussed — the comma in ‘Rugăciunea unui dac’, the hapax ‘nemurie’ in ‘Luceafărul’ and the lunar passage in ‘Satira IV’ — demonstrate how tacit changes to punctuation have distorted Eminescu’s cosmology and poetic logic.

Studia Humanitatis No. II (XVI) / 2023 The Image of Light in Eminescu’s Poetry (I) Professor, PhD Nicolae Georgescu

The article analyses the terms ‘luminare’ and ‘lumânare’ in Eminescu’s poetry, demonstrating that the editorial modernisations carried out by Titu Maiorescu, Perpessicius and others have distorted the meaning of the original expressions in ‘Letter I’, ‘The Night’ and ‘The Veranda Sonnet’, by confusing the lamp with the candle and undermining the coherence of the poetic image of light.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XIII) / 2022 Mihai Eminescu, a Christian poet? Rev. Prof. Dr. Ioan Stancu

Mihai Eminescu’s poetry is analysed from a Christian Orthodox perspective, focusing on the theological reflection found in A Dacian’s Prayer, Angel and Demon, Melancholy and The Morning Star. The themes of the Trinity, the Incarnation, suffering and joy, human freedom, and the relationship between the Church and the Romanian people are explored through references to Lossky, Evdokimov and the Holy Fathers.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (I) / 2016 God in the writings of Eminescu George Anca

Taking as its starting point the poetic connections between Eminescu, Baudelaire, Tagore and Montale, this study explores the religious and metaphysical dimension of Eminescu’s work — from the myth of Zalmoxe and Dacian immortality to the interpretations of Nichifor Crainic and Arghezi — and proposes a comparative Indo-Romanian perspective that encompasses Eminescu’s sculpture and the contributions of Romanian Indology.

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