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Feb 09, 1908 Bucharest Died on 18 Feb 1974 (aged 66)
Romanian poet
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- Cicerone Theodorescu (February 9, 1908 – February 18, 1974) was a Romanian poet. Born in Bucharest, his father was a laborer for Caile Ferate Române state railway.
- After attending high school in his native city, he studied at the literature and philosophy department of the University of Bucharest.
- He then taught in various high schools and worked as an editor and reporter.
- A contributor to the left-wing press, he signed, together with other pro-democracy intellectuals, protests against the country's drift toward fascism.
- After the King Michael Coup of 1944, Theodorescu held important posts at Centrala Car?ii publishing overseer, was vice president of the Romanian Writers' Society from 1944 and editor-in-chief of Via?a Româneasca magazine from 1948.Theodorescu made his literary debut in 1925 in Perpessicius' Universul literar; he subsequently published in Azi, Credin?a, Cuvântul, Cuvântul liber, Facla, Lumea, Sinteza, Gazeta literara, Via?a Româneasca, Vremea, Zodiac, România Literara and Luceafarul.
- His first book was the 1936 Cle?tar, described by Ovid S.
- Crohmalniceanu as "enclosing the soul's turmoil in glacial, pellucid verses, slowly carved with a jeweler's care".
- He drew particular notice for his verses inspired from the work and suffering of railwaymen.
- His other volumes followed the same direction (including Cântece de galera, 1946; Focul din amnar, 1946; Un cântec din uli?a noastra, 1953, State Prize).
- However, with time, his lyricism tended toward the epic or became anemic, and remained lively only in the collections of fixed-form poems such as rondels.
- His later books included Poteca lunii, 1964; Hronic, 1965; Zburatorul din larg, 1965; ?armul singuratic, 1968; Plato?a duratei, 1973 and Nebunul regelui, 1976.
- In 1971-1972, near the end of his life, he spent lengthy periods in Rome, writing a poem about Trajan that remains unpublished.Theodorescu translated widely, in particular Soviet literature (Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aleksandr Tvardovsky), but also authors who included William Blake, Jérôme Carcopino and Lino Curci.
- He collected folklore (Izvoare fermecate, 1958) and wrote prolifically for children, although some of these works are now irrecoverable.
- He sometimes used the pen names Radu Lancieru, Victor Sângeru, C.
- Tudor and C.
- Tudoran.
