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Selected Shorter Poems - (Shearsman Classics) by Luis Vaz De Camoes (Paperback)
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- 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.
- Author(s): Luis Vaz De Camoes
- 92 Pages
- Poetry, European
- Series Name: Shearsman Classics
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Jonathan Griffin ably demonstrates in this volume that the shorter works of Camoens, mostly sonnets and redondilhas (roundels), are fine lyrics and ought to be given the same serious attention that the great epic receives as of right.
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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.