CLÁSSICOS BRASILEIROS BRAZILIAN CLASSICS - Imprensa Oficial
CLÁSSICOS BRASILEIROS BRAZILIAN CLASSICS - Imprensa Oficial
CLÁSSICOS BRASILEIROS BRAZILIAN CLASSICS - Imprensa Oficial
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Brazilian Classics<br />
A selection of authors with works in public domain<br />
18<br />
ALPHONSUS DE GUIMARAENS<br />
(1870 – 1921)<br />
Alphonsus de Guimaraens stood out within the<br />
brazilian symbolist movement. Writing verses of<br />
intense musicality he becomes, thus, one of the<br />
most important mystic poets in the Portuguese<br />
language. Spiritually different from Cruz e<br />
Sousa, this Minas Gerais poet from Mariana<br />
creates a calm, balanced poetry, full of a religious<br />
acceptance of the setbacks of life.<br />
Review<br />
Main works<br />
Excerpt<br />
Ismália<br />
When Ismália went out of her mind,<br />
She started dreaming up there in the tower...<br />
She saw o moon in the sky,<br />
She saw another moon in the sea.<br />
In her vanished dreams,<br />
She bathed her entire self in the moonlight...<br />
She wished to arise up to the sky,<br />
She wished to go down to the sea...<br />
And, in her ravings,<br />
She started singing up there in the tower... close<br />
she was to the sky,<br />
far she was from the sea...<br />
And just Iike an angel she stretched out<br />
Her wings to fly...<br />
She was longing for the moon in the sky,<br />
She was longing for the moon in the sea...<br />
The wings God had given her<br />
Fluttered together...<br />
Her soul arose up to the sky,<br />
Her body went down to the sea...<br />
The amazing resonance of a work<br />
"And precisely this highly qualified artistic painstaking will explain the permanence of Alphonsus de Guimaraens. And<br />
more than permanence, this prolongation of Alphonsus in the admiration by our major poets."<br />
(Eduardo Portella, O universo poético de Alphonsus de Guimaraens)<br />
The equilibrium of a mystic<br />
"Very rarely has this exuberant land seen, either in the geographical configuration or in the spiritual manifestations of the<br />
countryman, such a balanced work as that by the great mystic from Minas Gerais."<br />
(Henriqueta Lisboa, A poesia de Alphonsus de Guimaraens)<br />
Dona mística (1899); Câmara ardente (1899); Centenário das dores de Nossa Senhora (1899); Kiriale (1902); Mendigo<br />
(1920); Pauvre lyre (1921); Pastoral aos crentes do amor e da morte (1923); Nova primavera (1938); Escada de Jacó<br />
(1938); Púlvis (1938); Poesias (1955); Salmos da noite (1960); Poesia completa (2001).
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