Agatha Bacovia (born Agatha Grigorescu; March 8, 1895 – October 12, 1981) was a Romanian poet.
Born in Mizil, her parents were ÃÂerban Grigorescu and his wife Maria (née Anastasiu). Her mother died shortly after giving birth, and her father when she was an adolescent. At age 21, she met fellow poet George Bacovia, fourteen years her senior, while walking on Bucharest's Calea Victoriei. The couple married twelve years later, in June 1928. Agatha functioned as both secretary and nurse to her sickly husband, supporting him with her teacher's salary.
She attended the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1927. Her first published work appeared in Scena magazine in 1918; her first poetry book was the 1923 Armonii crepusculare. She contributed to ViaÃÂa nouÃÂ, Revista scriitoarelor ÃÂi scriitorilor români, Orizonturi noi, Ateneu, Steaua and România LiterarÃÂ, sometimes signing as Agatha Gr. and Agata Grozea. Her verses were delicately symbolist, of a temperate tonality of her husband's manner.
Her books included poetry: Muguri cenuÃÂii (1926), Pe culmi de gând (1934), Luminà(1965), Cu tine noapte (1969), Versuri (1970), Efluvii (1977) and ÃÂoaptele iubirii (1979); poems and prose: Terase albe. Colocviu cu poetul (1938); and memoirs: Bacovia. ViaÃÂa poetului (1962; second edition: Bacovia. Poezie sau destin, 1972), (1971) and Poezie sau destin, III George Bacovia. Ultimii sÃÂi ani (1981). She headed a literary circle named after her husband, as well as a memorial museum dedicated to him.