The Sonnetist – A Picturesque Immixture. From the Mozarabics and the Sexual Personae to Voicushakespearianism
Shakespeare’s Last Sonnets lead us to that sort of imaginary which is still in the process of completing and beyond. There is a close connection between those worlds in which Voiculescu lived. He created an ambiguous dialogue between love and art. His interest in the archetype of platonic androgynous reveals a polyphonic voice, a polyphonic mind quite different from the Shakespearian pattern itself. Concerning oxymoronic and strangely androgynous, we should see the intellectual osmosis revealed in both writings, Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Voiculescu’s Sonnets. We should consider the fact that V. Voiculescu’s poems abound of new perspectives, simply because Voiculescu recreates a new imaginary translation there, a mystical one rather, intermingled with sexual personae (in Camille Paglia’s sense) and Apollonian and Dionysian picturesque images.
Keywords: modern Romanian literature, modern Romanian poetry, Vasile Voiculescu, sonnets, sexual personae
