List of Brazilian poets
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Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

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Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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  • Adalgisa Nery
    Adalgisa Nery
    Adalgisa Nery was a Brazilian poet, journalist and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro as Adalgisa Maria Feliciana Noel Cancela Ferreira, the daughter of a civil servant...

  • Adelaide Peters Lessa
  • Adélia Prado
    Adélia Prado
    Adélia Luzia Prado Freitas , is a Brazilian writer and poet.She was born in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, and started writing at the age of 40 which is relatively late in life for a poet...

  • Ademir Antonio Bacca
    Ademir Antonio Bacca
    Ademir Antonio Bacca is writer, poet and journalist.- Biography :He has published eight books of poetry: Asas e Coração, Pátria Amada de Outros Poeminhas Insensatos, A Tragédia dos Anjos, O Trágico Circo Cotidiano, Página de Jornal, Inventário de Emoções , Pandorgas ao Vento e...

  • Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
    Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
    Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna , is a Brazilian writer.-Background:He was a professor of Brazilian Literature at UCLA and the University of Texas at El Paso, and a writer for the O Globo newspaper. In 1971 he married Marina Colasanti, a Brazilian journalist and writer...

  • Afonso Schmidt
    Afonso Schmidt
    Affonso Schmidt was a journalist, short story writer, novelist, playwright-Biography:...

  • Alberto de Oliveira
    Alberto de Oliveira
    Antônio Mariano de Oliveira was a Brazilian poet, pharmacist and professor, more well-known by his pen name Alberto de Oliveira...

  • Alphonsus de Guimaraens
    Alphonsus de Guimaraens
    Afonso Henrique da Costa Guimarães, known as Alphonsus de Guimaraens, was a Brazilian poet....

  • Alvarenga Peixoto
    Alvarenga Peixoto
    Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet and a lawyer. He wrote under the pen name Eureste Fenício.-Biography:Peixoto was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Simão Alvarenga Braga and Maria Braga...

  • Álvares de Azevedo
    Álvares de Azevedo
    Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist...

     (1831
    1831 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* John Banim and Michael Banim, The Chaunt of the Cholera* Henry Glassford Bell, Summer and Winter Hours...

    1852
    1852 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems* Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington...

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  • Amadeu Amaral
  • Ana Cristina César
    Ana Cristina César
    Ana Cristina César was a poet and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She came from a middle-class Protestant background and was usually known as "Ana C." She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to...

  • Ana Rüsche
  • Andreá Motta
  • Armando Freitas Filho
  • Artur de Azevedo
  • Ascenso Ferreira
  • Augusto de Campos
    Augusto de Campos
    Augusto de Campos is a Brazilian writer who was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil. He is also a translator, music critic and visual artist....

  • Augusto dos Anjos
    Augusto dos Anjos
    Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered to forerun the Modernism in Brazil....

  • Augusto Frederico Schimidt
  • Augusto Massi
  • Augusto Meyer
    Augusto Meyer
    Augusto Meyer was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and folklorist...


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  • Cacaso
  • Caio Rudá de Oliveira
  • Camillo de Jesus Lima
  • Carlos Drummond de Andrade
    Carlos Drummond de Andrade
    Carlos Drummond de Andrade was perhaps the most influential Brazilian poet of the 20th century. He has become something of a national poet; his poem "Canção Amiga" was printed on the 50 cruzados note...

  • Carlos Nejar
    Carlos Nejar
    Luis Carlos Verzoni Nejar, better known as Carlos Nejar , is a Brazilian poet, author, translator and critic, and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras. One of the most important poets of its generation, Nejar, also called "o poeta do pampa brasileiro", is distinguished for his use of an...

  • Carlito Azevedo
  • Cassiano Ricardo
    Cassiano Ricardo
    Cassiano Ricardo was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet.An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the Green-Yellow and Anta groups of the movement before launching the Flag group, a social-democratic reaction to these groups...

  • Castro Alves
    Castro Alves
    Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his Abolitionist and Republican poems...

  • Catulo da Paixão Cearense
  • Casimiro de Abreu
    Casimiro de Abreu
    Casimiro José Marques de Abreu was a Brazilian poet, novelist and playwright, adept of the "Ultra-Romanticism" movement...

  • Cecília Meireles
    Cecília Meireles
    Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best poetess from Brazil, though she combatted the word...

  • Celso de Alencar
  • Chacal (Ricardo de Carvalho Duarte)
  • Charles
    Charles
    Charles is a given name for males and is borrowed from the French form of the Latin Carolus Charles is a given name for males and is borrowed from the French form of the Latin Carolus...

  • Christina Magalhães Herrmann
  • Cláudio Daniel
  • Claudia Roquette-Pinto
  • Cláudio Manuel da Costa
    Cláudio Manuel da Costa
    Cláudio Manuel da Costa was a Brazilian poet and musician, considered to be the introducer of the Neoclassicism in Brazil...

  • Cláudio Willer
  • Coelho Neto
    Coelho Neto
    Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto was a Brazilian writer and politician...

  • Cora Coralina
    Cora Coralina
    Cora Coralina was a Brazilian writer and poetess. She was born August 20, 1889, and died in the city of Goiânia on April 10, 1985. She published her first book after her husband died in 1965...

  • Cruz e Sousa
  • Carlos Alberto da Costa Nunes

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  • Damário Dacruz
  • Davino Ribeiro de Sena
  • Décio Pignatari
    Décio Pignatari
    Décio Pignatari is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words...

  • Donizete Galvão
  • Dora Ribeiro

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  • Eduardo Kac
    Eduardo Kac
    Eduardo Kac is an American contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio-art. Kac was born in 1962, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He lives and works in Chicago....

  • Eduardo de Paula Barreto 'O Poetizador'
  • Emílio de Meneses
  • Emílio Moura

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  • Felipe Daudt d'Oliveira
  • Ferreira Gullar
    Ferreira Gullar
    Ferreira Gullar is the pen name for José Ribamar Ferreira , Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer...

  • Francisco Alvim
  • Frederico Barbosa
    Frederico Barbosa
    Frederico Barbosa is a Brazilian poet.-Places of residence:Barbosa moved with his family to São Paulo, where he currently lives, when he was six...


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  • Jiddu Saldanha
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto
    João Cabral de Melo Neto
    João Cabral de Melo Neto was born in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, and is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets of all time.He is often quoted saying "I try not to perfume the flower"...

  • João Guimarães Rosa
    João Guimarães Rosa
    João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, considered by many to be one of the greatest Brazilian novelists born in the 20th century. His best-known work is the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas...

  • João Ribeiro
  • Jorge de Lima
    Jorge de Lima
    Jon Mateus de Lima, was a politician, poet, and writer of Alagoas.His most famous works are the novels "A Mulher Obscura" and "Calunga"; and "A Túnica Inconsútil" and "A Invenção de Orfeu"...

  • José Albano
  • Junqueira Freire
  • João Pedro Roriz
  • Júlio Prestes de Albuquerque
  • Juliano Klevanskis

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  • Laurindo Rabelo
    Laurindo Rabelo
    Laurindo José da Silva Rabelo was a Brazilian Ultra-Romantic poet, teacher and medician. Famous for his lundus and satires, he won the epithet of "the Brazilian Bocage", and, because of his physical appearance, the nickname "Poeta-Lagartixa" .He is the patron of the 26th chair of the Brazilian...

  • Leila Miccolis
  • Leônidas de Albuquerque
  • Luh Oliveira
  • Luis Delfino
  • Luiz Guimaraes

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  • Machado de Assis
  • Manoel Carlos G. de Almeida
  • Manuel Bandeira
    Manuel Bandeira
    Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...

  • Marcelo Ariel
  • Marcelo Gama
  • Márcio-André
    Márcio-André
    Marcio-Andre is a Brazilian writer, translator, performer, sound poet and theorist.- Biography :Márcio-André de Sousa is graduated in Literature and has a master's degree in Poetics by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro...

  • Mário de Andrade
    Mário de Andrade
    Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada in 1922...

  • Martins Fontes
  • Menotti del Picchia
    Menotti Del Picchia
    Paulo Menotti Del Picchia was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and painter. He is associated with the Generation of 1922, the first generation of Brazilian modernists....

  • Michel Melamed
  • Murilo Mendes
    Murilo Mendes
    Murilo Mendes was an exponent of Modernist poetry in Brazil. He lived in Europe twice and died in Lisbon. His greatest connection in Europe though was to Rome...

  • Mario Quintana
    Mario Quintana
    Mario de Miranda Quintana , was a Brazilian writer and translator. He became known as the poet of "simple things", and his style is marked by irony, profundity and technical perfection. The main themes of his poetry include death, the lost childhood and time...


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  • Paulo Ferraz
  • Paulo Henriques Britto
  • Paulo Leminski
    Paulo Leminski
    Paulo Leminski Filho was a Brazilian poet and writer. He took pride in being of mixed Polish and African descent....

  • Pedro de Alcantara
  • Pedro Lyra
  • Pedro Morato Krahenbuhl
  • Poemeus Verteus

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  • Raimundo Correia
    Raimundo Correia
    Raimundo da Mota de Azevedo Correia was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, judge and magistrate. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Olavo Bilac, he was a member of the "Parnassian Triad"....

  • Raphael Luís Thomas
  • Raul Bopp
    Raul Bopp
    Raul Bopp was a Brazilian poet and diplomat. He did diplomatic work in Japan and was a friend of Oswald de Andrade. Hence his Cobra Norato is an example of work based in the Manifesto Antropófago. In 1977 he won the Prêmio Machado de Assis.- References :...

  • Raul de Leoni
  • Régis Bonvicino
  • Ricardo Aleixo
  • Ricardo Corona
  • Ricardo Domeneck
    Ricardo Domeneck
    Ricardo Domeneck is a contemporary Brazilian poet, visual artist and critic, born on July 4, 1977. Currently, the poet lives and works in Berlin, Germany.- Writing :Ricardo Domeneck has published four books of poetry and two chapbooks to date...

  • Ribeiro Couto
  • Roberto Piva
    Roberto Piva
    Roberto Piva was a Brazilian poet and writer. He died from complications from Parkinson's disease.-Bibliography:Booklet* Ode a Fernando Pessoa, 1961Individual works...

  • Rogério Arvate
  • Rogério Duarte
  • Rogério Santos
  • Ronald de Carvalho
    Ronald de Carvalho
    Ronald de Carvalho was a Brazilian poet and diplomat from Rio de Janeiro. A street in Rio is named for him.- Works :* Luz Gloriosa * Pequena História da Literatura Brasileira...

  • Ruy Proença
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  • Taiguara
    Taiguara
    Taiguara Chalar da Silva , whose stage name was Taiguara, was a Brazilian singer and songwriter....

  • Tânia Martins
  • Tavinho Paes
  • Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
    Tomás Antônio Gonzaga
    Tomás Antônio Gonzaga was a Portuguese poet. One of the most famous Neoclassic Brazilian writers, he was also the ouvidor and the ombudsman of the city of Ouro Preto , as well as the desembargador of the appeal court in Bahia...

  • Torquato Neto
    Torquato Neto
    Torquato Pereira de Araújo Neto was a Brazilian journalist and poet. He is perhaps best known as a lyricist for the Tropicalismo counterculture movement, which later expanded its influence to Música Popular Brasileira. He worked with Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Edu Lobo, and Waly Salomão...


See also

  • Portuguese Poetry
    Portuguese poetry
    -History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...

  • Portuguese literature
    Portuguese literature
    This is a survey of Portuguese literature.The Portuguese language was developed gradually from the Vulgar language spoken in the countries which formed part of the Roman Empire and, both in morphology and syntax, it represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of...

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