Many of the studies undertaken on Panait Cerna's work have focused on the volume of poems, mentioning only in passing the theoretical concerns of the young Dobrogean poet. Although Cerna himself states "Poetry before everything", the two studies on Eminescu and Faust, as well as the doctoral thesis "Lyrics of Ideas" present him as a theoretician with a demanding critical discourse and an intellectual pedagogy, having origins precisely the personal demands on one's own poetic creation. The studies in Berlin and Liepzig focused on the deepening of German idealist philosophy make Cerna tributary to the conception of Hegel, but also of Kant, and as a result, Panait Cerna attempts a redefinition of traditional poetic concepts through the prism of new ones: poetic unity is beyond the abstract, it is a concrete totality. For the end of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century, Panait Cerna can be credited with having left the first treatise on poetics in Romanian culture, which led to the contextualization of the idea that Cerna is a deeper and more interesting theoretician than a poet.