On the uniqueness of an interwar poet – G. Călinescu

G. Călinescu, an outstanding and polyvalent personality of our national culture, at the same time a scholar and a novelist, a poet and a literary historian, a playwright and a journalist, a literary critic and a teacher, a moralist and a reporter, skilfully constructs the poetic universe, in which he, the writer, fuelled by the vibration of creative genius, becomes the character of an authentic lyrical game. Our retrieving endeavour aims to bring Călinescu’s lyrical texts back into the limelight to highlight the aesthetic and expressive values of their thematic content. At the same time, this study will meticulously investigate “the poetry of a scholar” who “rests with his head lain on a book” (Nicolae Manolescu), and who, in the abyssal depth of human contemplation, theorises the life in which the main character, Man, appears under the guise of a demiurge, ruler of heaven and earth, impetuous and solitary, “a skilful, tall creature” who loses himself in the “dew of the hay”, in the “morning clover”, in the “sweet-scented orchard”, in the “deep valley / with fir tree logs”. In poetry, the writer Călinescu’s intellectual, hermeneutic and pedagogical potential takes over to the detriment of the artistic dimension.