21 Facts About Mircea Demetriade

Mircea Demetriade associated with, and was inspired by, Alexandru Macedonski, building on early romantic influences at Literatorul magazine.

Later, he incorporated borrowings from Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, two of the authors Demetriade would translate into Romanian.

Mircea Demetriade is additionally remembered for helping to found the society of writers at Kubler Coffeehouse circle, and for being one of the regulars at Macedonski's literary salon.

Mircea Demetriade was born in Ocnele Mari, Valcea County, or, according to other documents, in Craiova.

Mircea Demetriade left high school early and then took declamation courses at the Bucharest Conservatory.

Mircea Demetriade soon became more interested in writing and composing poetry.

Primarily a disciple of the proto-Symbolist Alexandru Macedonski, Mircea Demetriade described himself as a student of the 1840s romantic poet Ion Heliade Radulescu.

Mircea Demetriade reads a "Parnassian note" and echoes from the "macabre poetry" of Maurice Rollinat in the work of Demetriade, Alexandru Obedenaru, and Alexandru Petroff.

Mircea Demetriade's first published work consisted of poems that appeared in Macedonski's Literatorul, in 1880; his first book was the 1883 Fabule, followed in 1884 by the collection Versuri.

Mircea Demetriade later followed up with pure-poetry and vers libre renditions from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Gerard de Nerval and Paul Verlaine.

In December 1884, Demetriade was a founding member of the Bucharest Social Studies Circle, with Alexandru G Radovici and Constantin Mille, wherein he represented a Masonic Lodge.

Mircea Demetriade gave readings of Romanian poetry and spoke to a cultural gathering in Czernowitz.

Mircea Demetriade cultivated close friendships with other more writers, including Vasile Alecsandri and Bonifaciu Florescu.

Mircea Demetriade was thus a speaker at Alecsandri's funeral in 1890, and the last person to visit Florescu upon the latter's death in 1899.

Mircea Demetriade continued to play the unconventional poet, well-integrated in the atmosphere of the era's literary cafes.

However, Mircea Demetriade remained among the most loyal Macedonskians, to 1904 and beyond.

Calinescu finds the play, and other Mircea Demetriade fairy tales, to be hampered by "poor versification"; reportedly, it was a commercial failure.

In tandem, Mircea Demetriade began writing for Constantin Ionescu-Caion's Romanul daily, and penned his most significant critical essays for its successor, Romanul Literar.

In tandem, Demetriade began collaborating with Macedonski at his right-wing reviews Forta Morala and Liga Conservatoare, using such pen names as Ali-Baba, Demir, Dimir, and D Mir.

Mircea Demetriade died on September 11,1914, shortly after the start of World War I His lifelong output included over fifteen hundred poems, plays, translations and articles of literary criticism, mainly uncollected in book form.

Mircea Demetriade had fathered a son, Mircea Jr, who was reportedly a "guiding light of his life".