Caragiale's Symbolist poems, including a series of sonnets, also display his profound interest in history. "Pajere", which reunited all of the poems Caragiale had published in "Viața Românească" and "Flacăra", was defined by Lovinescu as a series of "toned tableaux of our ancient existence", and by Ion Vianu as "a picturesque history of Wallachia", while George Călinescu remarks their "savant" character. The same critic also noted that "Pajere", which drew inspiration from Byzantine settings, were more accomplished versions of a genre first cultivated by Dumitru Constantinescu-Teleormăneanu. According to Perpessicius, Caragiale had "a certain outlook [...], according to which the past [...] should not be sought in books, but in the surrounding landscape". He illustrated this notion with a stanza from Caragiale's "Clio":