PRINCIPIUL POETIC: DE LA E. A. POE LA MAIORESCU ȘI CARAGIALE

A special role in promoting and imposing Edgar Allan Poe in Romanian culture was played by Titu Maiorescu and I. L. Caragiale. Starting with the French editions, Maiorescu will use the American writer's theories about poetry in his own literary analyses. And this was before there were translations of the foreign author's creations in the Romanian language. Caragiale distinguished himself by translating some of his prose texts into Romanian, repeating them several times in several versions. It is certain that both Maiorescu and Caragiale intuited the great value of E. A. Poe's works, giving him attention and credit, becoming his main promoters in the Romanian culture. This study aims to reveal essential aspects of the efforts undertaken in order to make Poe known in the Romanian literature.