Background
Almeida Garrett was born in Porto (Oporto), Portugal, Feb. 4, 1799, and spent his youth on the island of Terceira, in the Azores, where his family withdrew after Napoleon's forces entered Portugal.
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Written in response to the imposition of the Cabral dictatorship in 1841, Viagens na Minha Terra is a classic novel of Romanticism in Portugal. While confronting both the liberal and conservative politics of his age, Garrett also confronts classical and romantic ideals, and regional, national and universal values. While simultaneously traveling in both space (from Lisbon to Santarém) and time (to the past), Garrett takes a critical look at both the politics of his time and the values of his age.
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Os relatos de viagem do autor-narrador abrem caminhos para digressões filosóficas, reflexões sobre fatos históricos de Portugal e discussões literárias. Pelo caminho até chegar a Santarém, o narrador descortina o colorido do interior português e esse cenário é pano de fundo para o romance entre Carlos e Joaninha e os desdobramentos da guerra civil portuguesa. Acompanhe esta narrativa e mergulhe no mundo dos clássicos da literatura.
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Camões ressurgiu em pleno meio-dia do romantismo do século XIX, não porque escrevera "Os Lusíadas", mas porque padecera duns amores funestíssimos. O século XVIII citava-o apenas nos livros didáticos, e nas academias eruditas, como exemplar clássico em epítetos e figuras da mais esmerada retórica. Tinha caído em mãos esterilizadoras dos gramáticos que desbotam sapientissimamente todas as flores que tocam, apanham as borboletas, pregam-nas para as classificarem mortas, e abrem listas de hipérboles e metáforas para tudo que transcende a legislatura codificada de Horácio e Aristóteles. Texto segundo o Novo Acordo Ortográfico.
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Viagens na minha terra é um autêntico marco do romantismo português. Almeida Garrett realizou aqui o seu ideal estético: criar uma literatura que brotasse naturalmente da sua própria vida. Das viagens vividas pelo autor em 1843 surge este relato sobre as curiosidades o modo de ser e as paisagens da terra portuguesa.
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A history rendered as tragedy, Frei Luís de Sousa is a classic drama of Portuguese Romanticism. Drawing on the nostalgia for the time of Portugal's 16th King, D. Sebastian (1544-1578), current in his time, Garrett tells the story of Manuel de Sousa Coutinho, a highly-regarded noble who is married to the widow of a noble thought to have died with D. Sebastian in battle. But then, after more than twenty years, the husband returns, rendering the couple's marriage, and daughter, illegitimate.
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Almeida Garrett was born in Porto (Oporto), Portugal, Feb. 4, 1799, and spent his youth on the island of Terceira, in the Azores, where his family withdrew after Napoleon's forces entered Portugal.
From 1816 to 1821 he studied law at Coimbra and then moved to Lisbon, where he contracted a short-lived marriage with Luiza Cándida Midosi.
In 1823, after the abrogation of the liberal constitution of 1822, he was banished and lived in England and France until 1826. In 1828 the proclamation of Dom Miguel as absolute monarch again drove him to England, whence he departed in 1831 for the Azores; in 1832, however, he landed once again on his native shores with the small expedition that occupied Porto in behalf of the liberal forces, and two years later he was appointed chargécharge d'affaires in Brussels. After his return to Portugal in 1836 his life centered around the capital. He held the posts of inspector general of theaters, chronicler-in-chief, deputy to the Parliament, and minister for foreign affairs. In 1851 he was made a viscount. He died on Dec. 10, 1854. In 1903, his remains were transferred to the national pantheon in Belém. The same liberal, patriotic spirit that characterized Almeida Garrett's politics inspired his writings. His earliest works, such as the dramas Merope and Catão, the anacreontic odes, the poem O Retrato de Venus (1821) ("Portrait of Venus"), and the verses of the Lyrica de João Minimo (1829) were in the pseudoclassical manner that was the accepted literary norm of the times. But during his exiles in France and England he was deeply impressed by the writings and doctrines of the Romantic authors. For him, Romanticism, and this included veneration for Goethe and Shakespeare, was above all a mandate to turn to national themes and those drawn from folklore and to give expression to the traditional spirit of wistful melancholy, the untranslatable Portuguese saudade. Almeida Garrett's literary fame rests chiefly upon his poems and dramas, although he also wrote prose romances, political tracts, and journalistic pieces. His first important poem was the blank verse Camões, published in exile in 1825. This uneven work strikes the characteristic notes of saudade and patriotism, and these were sounded again in Dona Branca (1826), a poetization of the conquest of the Algarve. In much the same spirit he assembled a treasury of popular poetry in the volumes of his Romanceiro (1851 - 1853). Late in life he again sang of love and melancholy in the verses of Folhas cahidas (1852) ("Fallen Leaves"), among which are lyrics of exquisite loveliness. His two-volume novel O Arco de Sant'Anna (1846) ("The Arch of Sant'Anna") betrays the strong influence of the school of Walter Scott, and depicts life in Oporto during the turbulent days of Pedro I. His only other completed work of prose fiction, Viagens na minha terra (1837) ("Tracks in My Own Land"), is an assemblage of autobiographical elements, commentaries, impressions, and sketches. Almeida Garrett worked tirelessly to lay the foundations of a national drama. He gave support to a conservatory of dramatic art, attracted actors from abroad, took the initiative in constructing a theater befitting the capital, offered prizes, wrote dramatic criticism, and composed a series of original works for the stage. Once again he turned to national history for subject matter, and, entitling his first play Auto de Gil Vicente (1838), with reference to the famous Renaissance playwright, sought with plays such as Dona Filipa de Vilhena (1840), O Alfageme de SantarémSantarem (1841) ("The Sword Maker of Santarem"), and A Sobrinha do marquêsmarques ("The Niece of the Marquis") to renew the shallow-rooted Portuguese dramatic tradition, extinct nearly 300 years. Frei LuísLuis de Sousa (1844) (Brother Luiz de Sousa, 1909), based on the tragic myths that grew up around the military disaster met in 1578 by Portuguese forces at Alcázarquivir, where the Moors killed the young King Sebastian and virtually annihilated his army, is doubtless his finest drama. In it tragedy moves simply and fatefully in somber prose freighted with a deep patriotism. Almeida Garrett was a person of extraordinary versatility, a mixture of vanity and selfless enthusiasm. His life from early childhood was inextricably linked with the checkered destinies of his native country; and the key to his many-sided activity was a fervent spirit of liberal patriotism.
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(Written in response to the imposition of the Cabral dicta...)
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From 1816 to 1821 he moved to Lisbon, where he contracted a short-lived marriage with Luiza Cándida Midosi.