In 1919 his first volume of poetry, Poemele Luminii (Poems of Light) was published. Until the age of four, though he could talk, he purportedly never uttered a word a period of his childhood that he later described as, "under the sign of the incredible absence of word." Blaga's first poems were published in 1910, followed four years later by his first philosophical article, "Notes on intuition in Bergson." Around this time he traveled to Italy, where he scoured libraries for books on philosophy.Īt the outset of the first World War, Blaga began theological studies at Sibiu, graduating in 1917. Born in Transylvania, his father died in 1908 leaving the family destitute and forcing Blaga to leave secondary school. Lucian Blaga (May 6, 1961) The ninth son of a parish priest, Blaga grew to become one of Romania's foremost poets and philosophers.
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