Lucian Blaga (1895–1961) is judged by many to be Romania’s most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are well aware of their importance, his work has remained, up to now, little known in the English-speaking world.

This book represents one of the first efforts to make Blaga’s work accessible to a wider audience. It is a complete collection of Blaga's poetry, translated into English by Brenda Walker and Stelian Apostolescu.

A joint publishing project with UNESCO, this book includes an introduction by Keith Hitchins of the University of Illinois, one of the leading historians of Romania in the United States and a scholar intimately acquainted with Blaga’s life and work. In it, he discusses the importance of Blaga’s life and work.