14 Facts About Portuguese literature

An early example of Portuguese literature is the tradition of a medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry, originally developed in Galicia and northern Portugal.

The main manuscript sources for Galician-Portuguese literature verse are the Cancioneiro da Ajuda probably a late 13th-century manuscript, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and the Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional .

The line of the chroniclers which is one of the boasts of Portuguese literature began with Fernao Lopes, who compiled the chronicles of the reigns of Kings Pedro I, Fernando I, and John I He combined a passion for accurate statement with a special talent for descriptive writing and portraiture, and with him a new epoch dawns.

Portuguese literature was followed by Antonio Ferreira, a superior stylist, by Diogo Bernardes, and Andrade Caminha, but the Quinhentistas tended to lose spontaneity in their imitation of classical models, though the verse of Frei Agostinho da Cruz is an exception.

The leading Portuguese playwrights wrote in Spanish, and in the national tongue only poor religious pieces and a witty comedy by D Francisco Manuel de Mello, "Auto do Fidalgo Aprendiz", were produced.

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Portuguese literature is at his best in "Luz e Calor" and the "Nova Floresta".

Portuguese literature's talent led him to react against the general mediocrity and though he achieved no sustained flights, his sonnets vie with those of Camoens.

Portuguese literature was a master of short improvised lyrics as of satire, which he used to effect in the "Pena de Taliao" against Agostinho de Macedo.

Portuguese literature introduced the didactic poem, his odes reach a high level, and his letters and political pamphlets display learning and versatility, but his influence on letters was hurtful.

Portuguese literature'story became a science with Alexandre Herculano whose Portuguese literature'storia de Portugal is valuable for its sculptural style, and Joaquim Pedro de Oliveira Martins ranks as a painter of scenes and characters in Os Filhos de D Joao I and Vida de Nuno Alvares.

Portuguese literature used heteronyms, where he wrote in different styles as if he were more than one poet.

Portuguese literature began to write poetry at an early age, chiefly, though not entirely, devoting himself to the sonnet.

Portuguese literature then travelled, engaged on his return in political and socialistic agitations, and found his way through a series of disappointments to the mild pessimism, a kind of Western Buddhism, which animates his latest poetical productions.

Portuguese literature's melancholy was increased by a spinal disease, which after several years of retirement from the world, eventually drove him to suicide in his native island.