1876 is the year when the young, but very mature Eminescu, already an accomplished poet, deeply concedes to exotic imagination. His visionary inspiration takes him to the far-East. In the same time, his old, well-established appetite for the sources of philosophical knowledge gets easier translatable into euphonic verses. The neo-platonic metaphysics of light absorbs and takes the sentimental frustration away to a detached sublimity. Never tired of the human shallowness, the poet still invests in the romantic aesthetics of enthusiasm and condemns the manneristic inspiration. Thus, his poetry seems fresher than ever.