Luís de Camões: Selected Poetry

10 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Luís de Camões as a writer of both epic and lyric poetry, between the medieval style and the Renaissance.

Camões's lyric poems aligned with two different traditions: the popular and peninsular, through songs with motto, and the erudite and italian, through sonnets and odes. 

Reading and discussion of "The state I'm in is so unsteady"; "My errors, cruel fortune and ardent love"; "Oh let that sad and joyful dawn" and "The sky, the earth, the wind blowing softly...".