Selected Shorter Poems Contributor(s): Camoes, Luis Vaz De (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848616767 ISBN-13: 9781848616769 Publisher: Shearsman Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: July 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.28 lbs) 92 pages |
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Publisher Description: Luís Vaz de Camões (ca.1524/25-1580) is reckoned the greatest poet in the Portuguese language, granting him a position in the national literature akin to that of Dante, Shakespeare, or Goethe. He wrote a considerable amount of lyric poetry and at least three dramas, but is best remembered for his epic poem Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), which set out to be, and succeeded in being, a Portuguese epic of the nation that can stand alongside Virgil's Aeneid. As Jonathan Griffin ably demonstrates in this volume, however, his shorter works, mostly sonnets and redondilhas (roundels), are fine lyrics and ought to be given the same serious attention that the epic receives as of right. Little is known of Camões' life, other than what we see "reported" in the Lusiads, but we do know that he served as a common soldier in the East, serving in India, Africa and Macau. |
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