Over all his poetry hangs a cloud of sadness, the sense of coming doom. Influenced by the studies and by the philosophy of Schopenhauer, he introduced a new spirit into Rumanian poetry. " Other poems followed and soon established his claim to be the first among the modern poets of his country. In 1870 his great poetical talent was revealed by two contributions to the Convorbiri literare, the organ of the Junimist party in Jassy these were the poems "Venere şi Madonă" and "Epigonii. In 1883he had the first attack of the insanity, hereditary in his family, and in 1889 he died in a private institution in Bucharest. In 1874 he was appointed school inspector and librarian at the university of Jassy, but was soon turned out through the change of government, and took charge, as editor in chief, of the Conservative paper Timpul (Times).
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