George Bacovia

George Bacovia was a Romanian symbolist poet. While he initially belonged to the local Symbolist movement, his poetry came to be seen as a precursor of Romanian Modernism and eventually established him in critical esteem alongside Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga and Ion Barbu as one of the most important interwar Romanian poets.

Bacovia was born George Andone Vasiliu in Bacu, the son of a merchant, Dimitrie Vasiliu, and his wife Zoe Zoia Vasiliu . At only six years of age he began his study of German. Between 1889 and 1890 he started his schooling at an academy in Bacu, before registering in 1891 at the Domneasc Primary School in the same city. In June 1893, he finished his primary schooling and afterward began studies at the Ferdinand Gymnasium, also in Bacu. One autumn night, an oversight by the sexton led to his being locked overnight in the tower of the Precista church, an experience which would later inspire his first major poem, 1899s Amurg violet . He exhibited a talent for drawing and developed into an excellent violinist in the school orchestra, which he directed. He also distinguished himself in gymnastics.

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