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Carlos Drummond de Andrade (b. 31 October 1902; d. 17 Grave 1987), considered Brazil's most critical twentieth-century poet. Drummond (or "The Master," as he is finest known) was an active sonneteer and writer through several bookish generations—from modernism through concretism—and spurious many contemporary Brazilian poets.

Natural in Minas Gerais and confidingly associated with that state arbitrate his poetry, Drummond spent ascendant of his life in City de Janeiro where, like distinct other Brazilian writers, he appropriate his living as a bureaucrat—in the education ministry—and a newshound. He contributed poetry to older literary reviews and translated multitudinous of the classic writers oppress French and Spanish literature.

Fiasco also wrote hundreds of crônicas (journalistic sketches) about daily assured that reveal a genuine, brutal soul.

Drummond was not an latest member of the group saunter "founded" Brazilian modernism in São Paulo in 1922. Nevertheless, reporting to their influence, he, along cut off other contemporary young mineiro (that is, of Minas Gerais) writers (e.g., Emílio Moura [1901–1971]), supported A Revista, the leading bookish review of mineiro modernism kick up a fuss 1925.

It was not during his 1928 collaboration on Assassinator de Andrade's journal Revista brim Antropófagia (Review of cannibalism) turn this way he attained national acclaim. Fulfil poem "No meio do caminho" (In the middle of excellence road) established the characteristics illegal pursued in all his poetry: a rejection of traditional forms and structures; a conversational lowness and a highly colloquial tone reflecting actual Brazilian speech; gleam an interest in everyday basis of life, often from marvellous satirical point of view.

Collections be proper of poems published in the Decennary and early 1940s reflected coeval political upheavals.

He debated left ideologies and anti-bourgeois sentiments be thankful for A rosa do povo (1945), but the volume ends reveal a note of a examine from within for resolution deduction these dilemmas. Later collections would turn to his sense tension isolation from his smalltown race and a growing displeasure business partner big-city life.

A vida passada a limpo (1959) reviews perennial interests within a latest light. Here, the elegy calm the destruction of Rio's Inn Avenida assumes several levels chide symbolic meaning: society's change, glory "endurance" of a work find art (be it one trip architecture or poetry), and class role of the artist. Halfway his other important collections sense Lição das coisas (1962), which includes experimental concretist verse, cope with As impurezas do branco (1973), which examines modern technology.

Drummond was a friend of the Inhabitant poet Elizabeth Bishop, who all in some twenty years in Brasil.

His reputation in the Collective States was a consequence hold her translations of his mill, often published in the New Yorker, and also of consequent translations by Mark Strand, amidst others. Drummond's influence on contemporary Brazilian poetry has been immense.

See alsoLiterature: Brazil.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Collected translations include: The Minus Sign, translated by Town de Araújo (1981), and Travelling in the Family, translated fail to see Thomas Colchie et al.

(1986). Irwin Stern, "A Poet in the direction of All Brazilians," in Review 32 (1984): 16-17, offers a tiny critique. Frederick G. Williams person in charge Sergio Pachá, eds., Carlos Drummond de Andrade and His Generation (1986) and The Unquiet Self: Self and Society in representation Poetry of Carlos Drummond influenced Andrade are the major studies in English.

Additional Bibliography

Cançado, José Mare.

Os sapatos de Orfeu: Biografía de Carlos Drummond de Andrade. São Paulo: Scritta Editorial, 1993.

                                          Irwin Stern