1. George Bacovia exhibited a talent for drawing and developed into an excellent violinist in the school orchestra, which he directed.
16 Facts About George Bacovia
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In 1900, George Bacovia matriculated at the Military Academy in Iasi, but dropped out during his second semester, unable to bear military discipline.
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George Bacovia wrote the poem Liceu in response to a Ministry of Education questionnaire sent to graduates in the course of Spiru Haret's educational reforms.
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George Bacovia matriculated at the Faculty of Law in Bucharest and soon became a fixture in the city's literary life; an early reading of his poem Plumb at Alexandru Macedonski's salon produced a powerful impression.
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George Bacovia continued reading his poems at Macedonski's salon, and in 1904 his Nervi de toamna obtained the same success.
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In 1914, George Bacovia was interned at the sanitorium of Dr Margaritescu in Bucharest, from where he published poems in the literary supplement of the newspaper Seara and sent Plumb out for publication.
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George Bacovia returned to Bucharest in 1917, resuming his post as a functionary.
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Meanwhile, George Bacovia found work as a teacher of drawing and calligraphy at the Boys' Commercial School in Bacau.
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In 1928, George Bacovia married Agatha Grigorescu, editor of Bucati de noapte, and settled in Bucharest, where his wife was a teacher.
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George Bacovia gained a post as an inspector at the Ministry of Popular Education, but after the publication of his collection Cu voi, he returned with his wife to Bacau, where he spent three years unemployed.
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In 1934, George Bacovia published an anthology of his poems entitled Poezii; in 1940, his pension increased to 2,000 lei per month.
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George Bacovia then founded the House of Pensions for Writers, from which he subsequently drew a 10,000 lei monthly pension.
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In 1945 George Bacovia was named librarian of the Ministry of Mines and Oil.
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George Bacovia continued to write, and in 1946 published the volume Stante burgheze, which led to his hiring by the Ministry of the Arts.
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Just after World War II George Bacovia's poetry began to be linked to newer currents of thought, being linked with and compared to the theatre of the absurd, poetic modernism, surrealism, automatic writing, imagism, expressionism, and even philosophic movements like existentialism.
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George Bacovia thus succeeded in becoming recognized as one of the most important Romanian poets, an author who executed a vast canonical leap from minor poet to enduring classic of Romanian literature.