Aron Cotruș

After the death of Queen Marie of Romania he wrote the important poem "Maria Doamna" ("Lady Marie"), in which, in the words of historian Lucian Boia, "the queen appears as a providential figure come from far-off shores to infuse the Romanian nation with a new force.

Along with Titus Vifor and Vintilă Horia he was assigned by the Iron Guard's National Legionary State to run the Romanian Propaganda Office in Rome, "The Fellowship of the Cross".

[4] The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry describes him as a writer "whose messianic thunderings were couched in rolling free verse and a racy, sonorous vocabulary.

[6] Under the communist regime, Cotruș was identified as a traitor, and as a representative of what Marxist critic Nestor Ignat called "hooliganism in literature".

[7] However, during the late Ceaușescu era, portions of his work were republished in Romania[8] and his image was partially rehabilitated.