Artur de Oliveira was a Brazilian writer, teacher and poet. He was born in Porto Alegre on August 11, 1851, and died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, on August 21, 1882. He was the patron of chair no. 3 at the Brazilian Academy of Letters, by choice of Filinto de Almeida. He was the son of João Domingos de Oliveira and Maria Angélica de Oliveira. After primary school in his hometown, he arrived in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 16, at the end of 1867. From Rio de Janeiro he traveled to Minas Gerais, in order to enroll in the famous Caraça school. Leaving the school of his own free will, but with an accusation of indiscipline, he went to Pernambuco, where he tried to study at the Faculty of Law of Recife, in 1870, but, failing mathematics, he gave up trying again. He then went to Europe. On August 4, 1870, he wrote to his father describing his first observations of Paris, including the Franco-Prussian War, which was almost over then. From Paris he traveled to Berlin, however, returning to France in the first days of November 1871, expelled by the German authorities, remaining in Paris at least until May 1872. He maintained friendly relations with Théophile Gautier and his sister Judith,

Catulle Mendès Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. Early life and career Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux. After childhood and adolescence in Toulouse, he arrived in Paris in 185 ...

Leconte de Lisle Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle''. Biography Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas ...

and the famous bookseller

Alphonse Lemerre Alphonse Lemerre (Canisy, Normandy, France, 1838 – Paris, France, 1912) was a 19th-century French editor and publisher, known especially for having been the first to publish many of the Parnassian poets. Life Alphonse Lemerre was the eig ...

. By 1873, he had returned in Rio de Janeiro, after a long and fruitless attempt to obtain a law degree, which seems to have been much more his father's aspiration than his own. In 1879, he ran for the position of substitute professor of Rhetoric, National Poetics and Literature at Colégio Pedro II. Failing that, he submitted himself to another competition the following year, at the same College, again an unsuccessful attempt. Later, he was appointed as a substitute teacher of Portuguese and Literary History at that school and also taught at the Escola Normal. His intensive reading, his studies at Caraça and his trip through Europe fed his well-known erudition, which he liked to exhibit, with talent and a lively imagination, reading poetry to his friends, including

Fontoura Xavier Fontoura Xavier is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, 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 o ...

Teófilo Dias Teófilo Odorico Dias de Mesquita (November 8, 1854 – March 29, 1889) was a Brazilian poet, journalist and lawyer, nephew of the famous Romantic author Gonçalves Dias. He is the patron of the 36th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. ...

Carvalho Júnior Carvalho or de Carvalho (), meaning 'oak', is a Portuguese surname. The surname is most common in Portugal, Brazil, Galicia (although in Galicia it may be spelled 'Carbajal', 'Carvallo' or 'Carballo'), the former Portuguese African colonies (An ...

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Alberto de Oliveira Antônio Mariano de Oliveira (April 28, 1857 – January 19, 1937) was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor. He is better known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira. Alongside Olavo Bilac and Raimundo Correia Raimundo da Mota de Azevedo ...

. The latter, in an interview with ''Terra Roxa e Outras Terras'', in 1926, testifies to the importance of Artur de Oliveira in the introduction of

Parnassianism Parnassianism (or Parnassism) was a French literary style that began during the positivist period of the 19th century, occurring after romanticism and prior to symbolism. The style was influenced by the author Théophile Gautier as well as by th ...

in Brazil: "Arthur read Gautier, Banville,

Sully-Prudhomme René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme (; 16 March 1839 – 6 September 1907) was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, bu ...

, Baudelaire and excited us with his enthusiasm." But in fact, he talked more than he wrote. His literary production is scarce and, even so, does not correspond to what is expected from the genius proclaimed by those who lived with him. His death, at the age of 31, was deeply felt for having erased one of the great talents of his generation. With an insignificant bibliography while he lived - about one hundred printed pages - Artur de Oliveira only had one more significant edition of his work, in 1936.

Luís Filipe Vieira Souto Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...

collected all his works under the title of ''Dispersos'', including his family correspondence, which is regarded by some as much more important and valuable than all of his known writings.Bio
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