An early success for the new journal was the warm reception it received from Vasile Alecsandri and the collaboration of popular memoirist Gheorghe Sion .
Vasile Alecsandri is a Romantic poet and occasional Junimist whom Macedonski idolized at the time .
An early success for the new journal was the warm reception it received from Vasile Alecsandri , a Romantic poet and occasional Junimist whom Macedonski idolized at the time , and the collaboration of popular memoirist Gheorghe Sion .