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Project Gutenberg on Nostr: Portuguese writer José Agostinho de Macedo was born #OTD in 1761. Macedo was the ...

Portuguese writer José Agostinho de Macedo was born #OTD in 1761.

Macedo was the first to introduce from abroad and to cultivate didactic and descriptive poetry, the best example of which is his notable transcendental poem Meditation. His made an attempt to supersede Luís de Camões as Portugal's greatest poet, and in 1814 he produced Oriente, an epic dealing with the same subject as the Os Lusíadas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Agostinho_de_Macedo

Books by Macedo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/32274

#books #literature

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