António Augusto Soares de Passos (27 November 1826 – 8 February 1860), also referred to simply as Soares de Passos, was a

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poet, creator of the "

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" in Portugal. Son of merchants and a follower of the

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ideas, having learned

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and

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during his youth, he entered at the

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to graduate in

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. There, he met

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, Silva Ferraz and Aires de Gouveia, founding with them, in 1851, the magazine ''O Novo Trovador'' (''The New Trobadour''). Having already graduated, in 1854, he returned to Porto, collaborating in the poetry journals ''O Bardo'' (''The Bard'') and ''A Grinalda'' (''The Garland''). The only book Passos published during his lifetime was his poetry book ''Poesias'' (''Poetry''), in

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. The poems mostly speak of death and the wrath of God, all of them with heavy ''

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'' traces. Having a very tumultuated life, and constantly assailed by diseases, he died in 1860, a victim of

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Three poems by Soares de Passos
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