Nicolae Văcărescu

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contribution to Romanian literature

  • TITLE: Romanian literature
    SECTION: The 18th century
    ...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.

Văcărescu family

  • TITLE: Văcărescu Family (Romanian family)
    ...(“Sad Turtledove”) and Testamentul, reveal a high artistic level and a mastery of a rich Romanian language. Ienăchiţă’s sons, Alecu (1765–99) and Nicolae (1784–1825), also wrote poems inspired by folk songs and modern Greek anacreontics. They composed love poems and satires.