"Leonor de Mendonca" from Goncalves Dias. Poeta, advogado, jornalista, etnografo e teatrologo brasileiro (1823-1864)."

"Os Timbiras" from Goncalves Dias. Poeta, advogado, jornalista, etnografo e teatrologo brasileiro (1823-1864)."

"Poemas" from Goncalves Dias. Poeta, advogado, jornalista, etnografo e teatrologo brasileiro (1823-1864)."

"Primeiros Cantos" from Goncalves Dias. Poeta, advogado, jornalista, etnografo e teatrologo brasileiro (1823-1864)."

Antonio Goncalves Dias (August 10, 1823 - November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as -Indianism-, he is famous for writing -Cancao do exilio- (arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature), the short narrative poem I-Juca-Pirama, the unfinished epic Os Timbiras, and many other nationalist and patriotic poems that would award him posthumously with the title of national poet of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of Native Brazilian languages and...