''Lira dos Vinte Anos'' (in en, Twenty-year-old Lyre) is a poetry anthology written by

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ian Romantic author

Álvares de Azevedo Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (September 12, 1831 – April 25, 1852), affectionately called "Maneco" by his close friends, relatives and admirers, was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist, considered to b ...

. Originally part of an aborted project that would be written in partnership with

Aureliano Lessa Aureliano José Lessa (1828–1861) was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement. Born in Minas Gerais in 1828, he moved to São Paulo in 1847 to study Law, but received his bacharel degree at the Faculdade de Direito de Olinda ...

and

Bernardo Guimarães Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (; August 15, 1825 – March 10, 1884) was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances '' A Escrava Isaura'' and '' O Seminarista''. He also introduced to Brazilian poetry the ''verso ...

called ''As Três Liras'' ( en, The Three Lyres), it was published in

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. It is one of the few works whose publication was prepared by Álvares himself, due to his premature death on April 25, 1852. The book is divided in three parts: the "

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Face" (first and third parts) and the "

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Face" (second part), as Álvares calls them, based on characters from

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's '' The Tempest''. While the poems of the Ariel Face feature extreme sentimentalism, platonic love, melancholy, among others, the poems of the Caliban Face are heavily morbid, sarcastic and ironic. From its initial publication in 1853, it would suffer many re-edits, getting to its current form in 1942. Some studies about this book: "O belo e o disforme", Cilaine Alves; "Risos entre pares", Vagner Camilo; "Uma lira de duas cordas", Rafael Fava Belúzio.

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1853 books Brazilian poetry collections Romanticism Books published posthumously {{poetry-collection-stub