Marcel Romanescu (October 11, 1897–1956) was a Romanian poet.
Born in Liège, he attended primary school in Paris and Craiova; he went to high schools in Craiova, Turnu Severin, IaÃÂi and at Dealu Monastery. In 1920, he obtained a degree in law and philosophy from the University of Bucharest. He served as attaché to the legation at the Vatican from 1921 to 1923, and was legation secretary at Warsaw (1923-1925) and at The Hague from 1925. He headed România magazine at Rome in 1921, and Flamura at Craiova from 1926 to 1929. From 1915, he published in the Bucharest-based FlacÃÂra, subsequently contributing to ViaÃÂa literaràÃÂi artisticà(at Craiova), Ramuri, LuminànouÃÂ, Solia, România de mâine, Zorile, Glasul Bucovinei, SburÃÂtorul, AdevÃÂrul literar ÃÂi artistic, Convorbiri Literare, Gândirea, MiÃÂcarea literaràand Universul literar. His first book, the 1923 Isvoare limpezi, was billed as including "sonnets and poems". He also published Cuiburi în soare (1926), Hermanosa din Corint. Povestea unei hetaire (1927) and GrÃÂdina lui Teocrit (1928). He wrote a version of the Song of Songs in 1925, as well as translating Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fausto Maria Martini, Gunnar Heiberg and Sigbjørn Obstfelder. His poetry was Neoclassical, with certain affinities linking it to the motifs and rhythms of Symbolism and Parnassianism.