Abstract
The aim of this article is to examine the “Elegia do Arpoador”, included in Augusto Meyer’s Últimos poemas (1955), along with his study Camões, o bruxo (1958), and the dialogue it establishes with a certain neoclassical tendency that marked Brazilian lyric poetry in the 1940s and 1950s.
Keywords
Augusto Meyer; Camões; modern lyric poetry; neoclassicism; elegy