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MIHAI EMINESCU • Chronology / Life, Creation, Cultural Context

 
Mihai Eminescu, 1884 
February, 1. Convorbiri literare publishes an ample grouping of Eminescu's poems: Lasă-ti lumea ta uitată (Your lost world you should forsake), Somnoroase păsărele (Drowsy birds), Si dacă ramuri bat în geam (If branches), Din valurile vremii (The waves of time), Când amintirile (When thoughts of past things), S-a dus amorul (Our love has fled), Pe lângă plopii fără sot (Along the row of poplars odd), Adio (Farewell), De-oi dormi (If I'll sleep), Te duci (You leave), Se bate miezul noptii (It’s midnight struck), Peste vârfuri (O'er the tree tops), De-or trece ani (Although the world), Cu mâne zilele-ti adaogi (With life's tomorrow time you grasp), Ce e amorul (And what is love), Criticilor mei (To my critics), La mijloc de codru des (Deep within the forest's heart), Ce te legeni, codrule (Forest, why d'you swing so low) and Diana. • February, 18. Eminescu leaves the Vienesse sanatorium; following Dr. Leidesdorf's recommendation, the poet makes a short trip to Italy, accompanied by the same Chibici-Râvneanu. • March, 9. Alone, ill and deprived of any possibility of earning his living, Nicu, the poet's brother, commits suicide at Ipotesti. He'll be buried together with Iorgu and with their parents. • March, 27. Eminescu returns to România. After a short stay in Bucharest, he leaves for Jassy, accompanied, once again, by Chibici-Râvneanu. Thanks to Maiorescu, money – coming both from Junimea members's contributions and from the returns of his volume's selling – will be sent periodically to him. • May, 18. Iosif Vulcan publishes in Familia the poem Luceafărul in the variant selected by Titu Maiorescu for The volume of Poesii. • July, 1884. According to the notes of A. C. Cuza, Eminescu's friends in Jassy convince him to take a group photo in the studio of Nestor Heck. Actually, it was only Mihai Eminescu to be photographed; this will be His last but one image. • September, 24. Eminescu works as a sub-librarian in the University Library of Jassy. Starting with October, he'll also teach geography and statistics at the Commercial School of Jassy. • From the moment of the poet's falling ill, his chest with manuscripts and books had remained at his friends in Bucharest; in the winter of 1884, it will be Taken – for the sake of safety – to the house of Titu Maiorescu. • November, 13. At the National Theatre of Bucharest, opening night with I.L. Caragiale's masterpiece, O scrisoare pierdută (A lost letter). • This year, Slavici moves to Sibiu, where he'll become the editor and director of Tribuna (The Tribune) – the first Romanian daily paper in Transylvania. • 1885. The work at the Dictionarul Academiei is to be continued by Alexandru Philippide. • March, 9. Opening night of Vasile Alecsandri's play Ovidiu (Ovid). • April, 1. Iacob Negruzzi's settling down in Bucharest brings about moving of Junimea's editorial office from Jassy to Bucharest, too. • April, 20. Opening night of I. L. Caragiale's play D'ale carnavalului (Carnival happenings), at the National Theatre of Bucharest. • July, 1. In Convorbiri literare, Eminescu's poem Sara pe deal (Eve on the hill), taken over by Titu Maiorescu from the manuscripts, which is actually only a fragment of a more ample poem entitled Eco (Echo). [next]

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