 The review, subtitled "Revista literară, artistică şi culturală" ("The literary, artistic, and cultural review"), was published between April 1919 and May 1921, and again from March 1926 to June 1927 (a weekly magazine entitled "Sburătorul Literar" was published between September 1921 and December 1922).During its last period in print, "Sburătorul" engaged in a polemic with partisans of a more traditional style, especially figures grouped around the "Sămănătorul" magazine.Lovinescu himself argued against Nicolae Iorga's ethnocentric views on Romania in the Middle Ages.