The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524 80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed and admired by such poets as William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Camoes was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense life of adventure. The first significant English translation of Camoes s sonnets in more than one hundred years, "Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition" collects seventy of...
The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524 80) has been ra...
"The late ingenious translator of the Lusiad," says Lord Strangford, "has portrayed the character, and narrated the misfortunes of our poet, in a manner more honourable to his feelings as a man than to his accuracy in point of biographical detail. It is with diffidence that the present writer essays to correct his errors; but, as the real circumstances of the life of Camoens are mostly to be found in his own minor compositions, with which Mr. Mickle was unacquainted, he trusts that certain information will atone for his presumption."
"The late ingenious translator of the Lusiad," says Lord Strangford, "has portrayed the character, and narrated the misfortunes of our poet, in a mann...
