Editor’s Introduction to the English Translation Collection of Eminescu’s Articles, “Old Icons, New Icons”
Written by Glasul.info, 9 aprilie 2020
Of peasant ancestry on his father’s side and boasting aristocratic (boyar) maternal roots, the Romanian poet, prose writer, and editorialist Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) had not put his modest inherited wealth to waste. Educated in the German language since childhood, Eminescu was culturally—if not always geopolitically— an enthusiastic Germanophile. As a young man, he had studied…
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