sentences: "Literary historian Ion Simuţ, who theorizes a separation between the Circle's ideology and Negoiţescu's own "Euphorionism", also notes that, having earlier used Eugen Lovinescu to emancipate himself from Blaga and traditionalism, the young critic and all those who agreed, weary of seeming too detached from their roots, were invoking Goethe as "an antidote to Lovinescianism, that is to say against sheltering oneself in aesthetics."