The inner eye of knowledge: the metaphysical sadness in the lyrics of Lucian Blaga

In the works At the Courtyard of Yearning, In Praise of Sleep, At the Watershed, we see a manifestation of a Faustian passion of knowledge, built up in the shape of demonic instances, theorized by Goethe and essay-like exposed by Lucian Blaga. The existential anxiety which generates metaphysical sadness, reaches the boiling point, imprinting to the works In Praise of Sleep and At the Courtyard of Yearning powerful tragic accents. In critical works about Blaga it was often spoken about the cult of the deepness, a concept about which the poet himself said he has it, in a posthumous publication in which he has different opinions with the ones who critique him, finding his poems difficult or even abstract. The lirosophical vision of Blaga takes some concepts from Leibniz philosophy, exposed scarcely in The Trilogy of Knowledge. God is conceived by the Dutch philosopher as a supreme, absolute existence, not to be identified with Nature. The exegetics is almost unanimously in considering the work In Praise of Sleep as a turning point in Blaga’s lyrical creation. Several literary critics and historians present the poetry of Blaga as a synthesis of inspiration and reflection.