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The book of poems "The hymns of the great love", an English-Romanian bilingual edition, is an everlasting eulogia of love, the first thrills of love, beauty, greatness, ineffable, brilliance and cosmic mystery that is love, the greatest gift of God. God being Love, Love is God incarnated in the heart in Man, which shakes, purifies, enriches its soul by raising it into the highest spheres. By love the being ascends to God, it is sanctified. Following the footsteps of the great poets who sang Love - Ovidiu, Petrarca - Stefan Dumitrescu, being an European poet, the author creates step by step, with each verse, the spell and the blinding glow of divine love, penetrating into the deepest spaces of human psychology, enlightening them, embellishing them, enriching them. So Man seems to us an endless Garden of immense lilies, but also a Mountain of Love. Coming with a new poetic burning in universal lyrics, the poet creates a mysterious, sleeping and ascending dream world, a homeland of divine love, which represents Man seen in his abisal depths and cosmic majesty. Here is one of the great poets of modern lyricism.

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Dumitrescu, Stefan
Stefan Dumitrescu, a Romanian writer nominated for the Nobel Prize, was born in 1950 in a locality in Valcea County. He is the author of many poems, dramas, essays and novels. Lucid and deep, Stefan Dumitrescu is a follower of Solzhenitsyn in the European literature, one of the great European writers.

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