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Brazilian Poet
This is a list of notable Brazilian poets. A * Adalgisa Nery * Adélia Prado * Ademir Antonio Bacca * Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna * Afonso Schmidt * Alberto de Oliveira * Alphonsus de Guimaraens * Alvarenga Peixoto * Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852) * Amália dos Passos Figueiroa * Ana Paula Arendt * Ana Cristina César * Artur de Azevedo * Augusto de Campos * Augusto dos Anjos * Augusto Meyer B * Basílio da Gama * Berta Celeste Homem de Melo C * Carlos Drummond de Andrade * Carlos Nejar * Cassiano Ricardo * Castro Alves * Casimiro de Abreu * Cecília Meireles * Cláudio Manuel da Costa * Coelho Neto * Cora Coralina * Cruz e Sousa D * Décio Pignatari E * Eduardo Kac * Eli Heil F * Ferreira Gullar * Frederico Barbosa G * Gregório de Matos * Gonçalves Dias * Gustavo Dourado H * Haroldo de Campos J * João Cabral de Melo Neto * João Guimarães Rosa * Jorge de Lima * Julia da Costa * Junqueira Freire * Júlio Prestes K * Kátya Chamma L * Laurindo Rabel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Meyer
Augusto Meyer (born in Porto Alegre on January 24, 1902; died in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ... on July 10, 1970) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and folklorist. He won the Prêmio Machado de Assis in 1948. Works As a poet * ''A ilusão querida'' (1923) * ''Coração verde'' (1926) * ''Giraluz'' (1928) * ''Duas orações'' (1928) * ''Poemas de Bilu'' (1929) * ''Sorriso interior'' (1930) * ''Literatura & poesia, poema em prosa'' (1931) * ''Poesias 1922-1955'' (1957) * ''Antologia poética'' (1966) As a crític and essayist * ''Machado de Assis'' (1935) * ''Prosa dos pagos''(1943) * ''À sombra da estante'' (1947) * ''Le Bateau ivre. Análise e interpretação'' (1955) * ''Preto & Branco'' (1956) * ''Gaúcho, história de uma palavra'' (1957) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Décio Pignatari
Décio Pignatari (August 20, 1927 – December 2, 2012) was a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator. Early life and education Born in Jundiaí in 1927, Pignatari began conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words in the 1950s. Such verbal adventures culminated in concretism, aesthetic movement that he co-founded with Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, with whom he edited the journals ''Noigandres'' and ''Invention'' and published the ''Theory of Concrete Poetry'' (1965). Career As a theorist of communication and semiotics, Pignatari translated works of Marshall McLuhan and published the essay ''Information, Language and Communication'' (1968). His poetic work can also be read in ''Poesia Pois é Poesia'' (''Poetry because it's Poetry'') (1977). Pignatari published translations of Dante Alighieri, Goethe and Shakespeare, among others, gathered in ''Portrait of Love when Young'' (1990) and ''231 poems''. He al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruz E Sousa
Cruz is a surname of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways. For example, in the Philippines, the adopted Tagalog word is rendered to "krus" in plain usage, but the Spanish spelling survives as a surname. The word "Cruz" (Spanish for "Cross"), as well as "Vera Cruz" ("True Cross") and "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross") are used as surnames and toponyms. Its origin as a surname particularly flourished after the Alhambra Decree of 1492 and the increasing activities of the Spanish Inquisition, when New Christian families with Crypto-Jewish, Moorish, and/or mixed religious heritage converted to the state-enforced religion of Catholicism and subsequently fashioned and adopted surnames with unambiguous religious affiliation. People with the surname General * Alberto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Coralina
Cora Coralina () is the pseudonym of the Brazilian writer and poet Anna Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas () (August 20, 1889 – April 10, 1985). She is considered one of the most important Brazilian writers, Her first book (''Poemas dos Becos de Goiás e Estórias Mais'') was published in June 1965. She spent her working life as a confectioner in a small bakery, and where she drew upon her experiences of rural Brazilian culture to create her rich poetic prose, often featuring the Brazilian countryside, and in particular focusing upon life of the citizens who lived in the small towns across the state of Goiás. Biography Anna Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas wrote under the pseudonym of Cora Coralina. She was born on August 20, 1889 in the city of Goiás and raised on the banks of the River Assunção, and maintained a strong connection to the city throughout her life. She was the daughter of Francisco de Paula Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto, a prominent local desembargador ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coelho Neto
Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto (February 21, 1864 – November 28, 1934) was a Brazilian writer and politician. He founded and occupied the second chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, from 1897 until his death in 1934. He was also the president of the aforementioned Academy in 1926. Life Coelho Neto was born in the city of Caxias, Maranhão, on February 21, 1864. His father was Portuguese, and his mother was an indigenous woman, Ana Silvestre Coelho. At six years of age, his parents moved to Rio de Janeiro. He began his education at the Externato of the Colegio Pedro II. He attempted medical school but soon gave up. In 1883 he enrolled at the University of São Paulo School of Law, living in the boarding house where also lived Raul Pompeia, who attended the Academy of São Paulo at that time. He soon found himself involved in a student movement against a professor. In anticipation of reprisals, he moved to the Law Faculty of Recife, where he completed the first year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudio Manuel Da Costa
Cláudio Manuel da Costa (June 4, 1729 – July 4, 1789) was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of Neoclassicism in Brazil. He wrote under the pen name Glauceste Satúrnio, and his most famous work is the epic poem ''Vila Rica'', that tells the history of the homonymous city, nowadays called Ouro Preto. He is the patron of the 8th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Biography Cláudio Manuel da Costa was born in the city of Vargem do Itacolomi (nowadays Mariana), to Portuguese João Gonçalves da Costa and Brazilian Teresa Ribeiro de Alvarenga. In 1749, he went to Lisbon, where he was graduated in Canon law in the University of Coimbra, where he composed most of his poems. Returning to Brazil, to the city of Ouro Preto, in 1754, he became a lawyer and a goldsmith. He was the secretary of Minas Gerais from 1762 to 1765, and a judge of lands from 1769 to 1773. He founded in Ouro Preto a Neoclassic literary academy called "Colônia Ultramarina" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecília Meireles
Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she combatted the word ''poetess'' because of gender discrimination. She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In the summer of 1940 she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. She wrote two poems about her time in the capital of Texas, and a long (800 lines) very socially aware poem "USA 1940", which was published posthumously. As a journalist her columns (''crônicas'', or chronicles) focused most often on education, but also on her trips abroad in the western hemisphere, Portugal, other parts of Europe, Israel, and India (where she received an honorary doctorate). As a poet, her style w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casimiro De Abreu
Casimiro José Marques de Abreu (January 4, 1839 – October 18, 1860) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. He is famous for the poem "Meus oito anos". He is patron of the 6th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 1999 Casimiro de Abreu's headstone was broken by an unnamed person Life Casimiro de Abreu was born on January 4, 1839, in the city of Barra de São João (renamed "Casimiro de Abreu" in his honor in 1925), to rich Portuguese farmers José Joaquim Marques de Abreu and Luísa Joaquina das Neves. He received only a basic education at Instituto Freeze, in Nova Friburgo, where he met and befriended Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa. Following orders of his father, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1852 to dedicate himself to commerce, an activity which he hated. With his father, he travelled to Portugal in 1853. There he began his literary career, writing for many newspapers (such as ''O Progresso'' and ''Ilustração Lus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castro Alves
Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (14 March 1847 – 6 July 1871) was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his Abolitionism, abolitionist and Republicanism, republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the "Condorism", he won the epithet of "O Poeta dos Escravos" ("''The Poet of the Slaves''"). He is the patron of the 7th chair of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Brazilian Academy of Letters. Life Castro Alves was born in the town of Castro Alves, Bahia, Curralinho (renamed "Castro Alves" in his honor in 1900), in the Brazilian state of Bahia, to Antônio José Alves, a doctor, and Clélia Brasília da Silva Castro, one of the daughters of José Antônio da Silva Castro (a.k.a. "Periquitão", Portuguese language, Portuguese for "Big Parakeet"), a prominent fighter in the Siege of Salvador, 1821–23 Siege of Salvador. In 1853, he was sent to study in the Colégio Sebrão, run by Abílio César Borges, Baron of Macaúbas, Abílio César Borges, the Baron of Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassiano Ricardo
Cassiano Ricardo (July 26, 1895 – January 14, 1974) was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet. An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the ''Green-Yellow'' and ''Anta'' groups of the movement before launching the ''Flag'' group, a social-democratic reaction to these groups. His work evolved into concrete poetry at the end of his career. Early life Cassiano Ricardo was born in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, in 1895. Career Ricardo, formerly a Symbolist poet, became a late adherent to Brazilian modernism and co-founded the mystical nationalist journal ''Novíssima''. In the following year, 1926, he launched the ''Green-Yellow'' movement, with Menotti del Picchia Paulo Menotti Del Picchia (São Paulo, March 20, 1892 – São Paulo, August 23, 1988) was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernism artists. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Nejar
Luis Carlos Verzoni Nejar, better known as Carlos Nejar (born January 11, 1939 in Porto Alegre), is a Brazilian poet, author, translator and critic, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. One of the most important poets of its generation, Nejar, also called "o poeta do pampa brasileiro", is distinguished for his use of an extensive vocabulary, alliteration, and pandeism. His first book, ''Sélesis'', was published in 1960. Nejar was elected to the fourth seat of the Brazilian Academy of Letters on November 24, 1988, succeeding Viana Moog. Works Poetry * Sélesis - Livraria do Globo, Porto Alegre, 1960. * Livro de Silbion - editora Difusão de Cultura, Porto Alegre, 1963. * Livro do tempo - editora Champagnat, Porto Alegre, 1965. * O campeador e o vento - editora Sulina, Porto Alegre, 1966. * Danações - José Álvaro Editor, Rio de Janeiro, em 1969. * Ordenações, editora Globo em convênio com o Instituto Nacional do Livro (INL). Prêmio Jorge de Lima, Porto Alegre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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