| Augusto dos Anjos | |
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| Born | Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos 20 April 1884 Cruz do Espírito Santo, Paraíba, Brazil |
| Died | 12 November 1914 (aged 30) Leopoldina, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Occupation | Poet, professor |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Ethnicity | Mestizo |
| Alma mater | Faculdade de Direito do Recife |
| Literary movement | Parnassianism, Symbolism, Pre-Modernism |
| Notable work(s) | Eu e Outras Poesias |
| Spouse(s) | Ester Fialho (1910-1914) (his death) |
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Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos (April 20, 1884 — November 12, 1914) was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered to forerun the Modernism in Brazil.
He is the patron of the first chair of the Paraiban Academy of Letters.
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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 situated in the city of 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. 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. In 1910 he married Ester Fialho.
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, named Eu (in English: Me), that received mixed reviews by the time it was published. (Órris Soares, lifelong friend of Augusto dos Anjos, would republish Eu in 1919, adding then-unpublished poems to it and re-releasing it under the title Eu e Outras Poesias, and since then the book has received better reviews.)
As he was serving as a headmaster at a school in the city of Leopoldina, in Minas Gerais, he died in November 12, 1914, victimated by pneumonia.
Augusto dos Anjos published only one book during his lifetime, named Eu. Its themes are sickness, death, heavy morbidity and pessimism. The poems' vocabulary is very medical and scientific as well.
Literary critics are not sure to which literary movement Augusto dos Anjos belong: some say he was a Symbolist and some say he was a Parnassian, although Ferreira Gullar classifies him as being a Pre-Modernist.