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Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos (April 20, 1884 – November 12, 1914) was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered the forerunners of Modernism in Brazil.[1]

Augusto dos Anjos
BornAugusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos
(1884-04-20)April 20, 1884
Cruz do Espírito Santo, Paraíba, Brazil
DiedNovember 12, 1914(1914-11-12) (aged 30)
Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
OccupationPoet, professor
Nationality Brazilian
Alma materFaculdade de Direito do Recife
Literary movementParnassianism, Symbolism, Pre-Modernism
Notable worksEu e Outras Poesias
Spouse
Ester Fialho
(m. 1910)

He is the patron of the first chair of the Paraiban Academy of Letters.


Biography


Augusto dos Anjos was born in 1884, in an engenho named Pau d'Arco, at the city of Cruz do Espírito Santo, in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. (Nowadays, the engenho is located in Sapé, also in Paraíba.) He was initially homeschooled by his father, until he was admitted at the Lyceu Paraibano, where he would become a teacher in 1908. Augusto wrote poems since he was 7 years old.

In 1903 he was admitted at Law course at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife, graduating in 1907. In 1910 he married Ester Fialho.

Starting a career as a magistrate, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he served as teacher for many educational institutions and started to publish his poems in periodicals and newspapers. In 1912 he published his first and only poetry book, Eu (in English: Me), that received mixed reviews by the time it was published. (Órris Soares, lifelong friend of Augusto dos Anjos, would republish Eu in 1919, adding then-unpublished poems to it and re-releasing it under the title Eu e Outras Poesias, and since then the book has received better reviews.)

As he was serving as a headmaster at a school in the city of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, he died on November 12, 1914, a victim of pneumonia.


Work


Augusto dos Anjos published only one book during his lifetime, named Eu. The themes of its poems, that are impregnated with a heavily scatological medical, scientific and philosophical vocabulary, are mostly sickness, death, heavy morbidity and pessimism.

Literary critics are not sure to which literary movement Augusto dos Anjos belong: some say he was a Symbolist and some say he was a Parnassian, although Ferreira Gullar classifies him as being a Pre-Modernist.


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[es] Augusto dos Anjos

Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos (Sapé, Paraíba, 20 de abril de 1884 - Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, 12 de noviembre de 1914); poeta brasileño.

[fr] Augusto dos Anjos

Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos (Cruz do Espírito Santo, 20 avril 1884 – Leopoldina, 12 novembre 1914 (à 30 ans)) est un poète brésilien, souvent considéré comme symboliste ou parnassien. Mais beaucoup de critiques, dont le poète Ferreira Gullar, l'ont classé comme pré-moderniste du fait que l'on rencontre clairement des caractéristiques expressionnistes dans ses poèmes.



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