Gh. A. Cuza’s sonnets in the journal „Cuget moldovenesc” [Articol]

Abstract

Being the most well-known and practiced fixed form of poetry in Romanian literature, the sonnet had prodigious cultivators in the journal “Cuget Moldovenesc” from Bălţi. Gh. A. Cuza (son of the well-known nationalist A. C. Cuza) took an important place among them. Together with Petre Stati, a redoubtable sonetist, and several other authors, Gh. A. Cuza became one of the most fervent promoters of the sonnet in interbelic Bassarabia. Beyond the literary influences existing in the interbelic period, Gh. A. Cuza’s poetry started from the need to create his own artistic universe. Traditionalist by his lyrical nature, the poet managed to give to the rigid form of the sonnet a new breath, enriched by various life and artistic experiences which, in general, prove the mastery of a rich and authentic language.