| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chronology; Selected Sonnets; O dia em que eu naci moura e pereça; Curse; Como quando do mar tempestuoso . . .; Shipwreck; Enquanto quis Fortuna que tivesse . . .; Reader; Brandas águas do Tejo que, passando . . .; Tagus; Por cima destas águas, forte e firme . .; Tears; Os vestidos Elisa revolvia . . .; Dido; Vós, Ninfas da gangética espessura . . .; For Leoni Pereira; Afermosura desta fresca serra . . .; Nature; Quando o sol encoberto vai mostrando . . .; On the Beach; Amor é um fogo que arde sem se ver . . .; Amor |
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Ditoso seja aquele que somente . . .Sin; Ditosas almas, que ambas juntamente . . .; Dead Lovers; Correm turvas as águas deste rio . . .; Confusion; Todas as almas tristes se mostravam . . .; Good Friday; Presença bela, angélica figura . . .; Green Eyes; Quem jaz no grão sepulcro, que descreve . . .; Sepulcher; Ó gloriosa cruz, ó victorioso . . .; O Glorious Cross; Um mover d'olhos, brando e piadoso . . .; Magic; Na metade do Céu subido ardia . . .; Natércia; No mund |
| Summary |
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed by such influential English poets as William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and admired in America by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville, Camões was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense adventurous life. He was banished for dueling and brawling at court, lost an eye fighting the Moors in North Africa, was sh |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English and Portuguese |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580 fast |
| Subject |
Sonnets, Portuguese.
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Sonnets, Portuguese -- Translations into English
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Sonnets, Portuguese
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baer, William, 1948-
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| LC no. |
2004058521 |
| ISBN |
9780226092997 |
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0226092992 |
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9780226092669 |
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0226092666 |
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1281959308 |
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9781281959300 |
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9786611959302 |
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6611959300 |
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