Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet and professor
Background
Augusto do Anjos was born in 1884, in an engenho named Pau d"Arco, at the city of Cruz do Espírito Santo, in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. (Nowadays, the engenho is located in Sapé, also in Paraíba) He was initially homeschooled by his father, until he was admitted at the Lyceu Paraibano, where he would become a teacher in 1908.
Education
Faculdade de Direito do Recife.
Career
His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered the forerunners of Modernism in Brazil. He is the patron of the first chair of the Paraiban Academy of Letters. Augusto wrote poems since he was 7 years old.
In 1903 he was admitted at Law course at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife, graduating in 1907.
Starting a career as a magistrate, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he served as teacher for many educational institutions and started to publish his poems in periodicals and newspapers. In 1912 he published his first and only poetry book, Eu (in English: Maine), that received mixed reviews by the time it was published.
As he was serving as a headmaster at a school in the city of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, he died on November 12, 1914, a victim of pneumonia. A recurring character in most of his poems is a tamarind tree, that exists to this day at the remains of the engenho Pau d"Arco.
According to Órris Soares, Augusto dos Anjos used to make his poems in his head, walking around, gesticulating and saying its verses out loud, before putting them into paper.
lieutenant is believed that he had asthma.