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Gonçalves Dias


Born
in Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil
August 10, 1823

Died
November 03, 1864

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Romantic poet, playwright and linguist Antônio Gonçalves Dias lived in Brazil. He, a major exponent of the Romanticism of Brazil and of the literary tradition, known as "Indianism," famously wrote " Canção do exílio ," arguably the most well-known poem of the Brazilian literature. He also wrote the short epic poem I-Juca-Pirama and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that later gave him the title of national poet of Brazil. He also avidly researched the Brazilian indigenous languages and folklore. ...more

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I-Juca Pirama

3.87 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1851 — 6 editions
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I-Juca Pirama - seguido de ...

3.74 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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Últimos Cantos

3.23 avg rating — 80 ratings13 editions
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Os Melhores Poemas De Gonça...

3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1991
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Primeiros Cantos (Ilustrado...

3.24 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions
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Canção do exílio

4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings2 editions
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I-Juca Pirama em Quadrinhos

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Os Timbiras

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Cantos

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions
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Poesia

4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions
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“Don't cry my son
Don't cry, because life is a redeemed fight
Life is a fight that will demean the weak person
And will always exalt the strong ones”
Antonio Goncalves Dias

“My homeland has many palm-trees
and the thrush-song fills its air;
no bird here can sing as well
as the birds sing over there.

We have fields more full of flowers
and a starrier sky above,
we have woods more full of life
and a life more full of love.

Lonely night-time meditations
please me more when I am there;
my homeland has many palm-trees
and the thrush-song fills its air.

Such delights as my land offers
Are not found here nor elsewhere;
lonely night-time meditations
please me more when I am there;
My homeland has many palm-trees
and the thrush-song fills its air.

Don’t allow me, God, to die
without getting back to where
I belong, without enjoying
the delights found only there,
without seeing all those palm-trees,
hearing thrush-songs fill the air.”
Antonio Goncalves Dias

“Dei o nome de Primeiros Cantos às poesias que agora publico, porque espero que não serão as últimas.

Muitas delas não têm uniformidade nas estrofes, porque menosprezo regras de mera convenção; adotei
todos os ritmos da metrificação portuguesa, e usei deles como me pareceram quadrar melhor com o que
eu pretendia exprimir.

Não têm unidade de pensamento entre si, porque foram compostas em épocas diversas - debaixo de céu
diverso - e sob a influência de impressões momentâneas. Foram compostas nas margens viçosas do
Mondego e nos píncaros enegrecidos do Gerez - no Doiro e no Teia - sobre as vagas do Atlântico, e nas
florestas virgens da América. Escrevi-as para mim, e não para os outros; contentar-me-ei, se agradarem; e
se não... é sempre certo que tive o prazer de as ter composto.
Com a vida isolada que vivo, gosto de afastar os olhos de sobre a nossa arena política para ler em minha
alma, reduzindo à linguagem harmoniosa e cadente o pensamento que me vem de improviso, e as idéias
que em mim desperta a vista de uma paisagem ou do oceano - o aspecto enfim da natureza.

Casar assim o pensamento com o sentimento - o coração com o entendimento - a idéia com a paixão - cobrir tudo isto
com a imaginação, fundir tudo isto com a vida e com a natureza, purificar tudo com o sentimento da
religião e da divindade, eis a Poesia - a Poesia grande e santa - a Poesia como eu a compreendo sem a
poder definir, como eu a sinto sem a poder traduzir.

O esforço - ainda vão - para chegar a tal resultado é sempre digno de louvor; talvez seja este o só
merecimento deste volume. O Público o julgará; tanto melhor se ele o despreza, porque o Autor interessa
em acabar com essa vida desgraçada, que se diz de Poeta.

Rio de Janeiro, julho de 1846.”
Gonçalves Dias, Cantos