 Ioana Sân-Giorgiu died of cancer in 1969; ten years later, Corbul defected and restarted his writing career in France (where he died in 2008).Sân-Giorgiu's early "Sămănătorist" works, influenced by Panait Cerna and Mihai Eminescu, were though by Lovinescu to be "lacking in originality".As he gradually moved towards modernism, Lovinescu notes, the poet displayed "abuse of imagery", "the perkiness of free forms", "egocentrism" and "tumultuous sensualism."