Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo

Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo was born on the 7^th September 1872; he died on the 4^th November 1963. He was a Brazilian poet, a writer of short stories, a diplomat and a journalist. He was the founded the and the occupied the 9^th chair if the Brazilian Academy of Letters from the year 1897 till he died in the year 1963, he became the longest occupant of the chair for the total of 66 years and the youngest founder of the Academy at the age of 25.

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Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro to Caetano Pinto de Azeredo and Leopoldina Magalhães de Azeredo. He started writing poems at the age of 12.  He wrote his first poem book called Inspirações da Infância, which was never published and at the age of 17, Carlos Magalhães de Azeredo started trading letters with Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Mário de Alencar.

Works

Poetry

Ø  Procelárias (1898)

Ø  Portugal no Centenário das Índias (1898)

Ø  O Poema da Paz, na Aurora do Século XX (1901)

Ø  Horas Sagradas (1903)

Ø  Odes e Elegias (1904)

Ø  O Hino de Púrpura (1906)

Ø  Vida e Sonho (1919)

Ø  A Volta do Imperador (1920)

Ø  Laudes do Jardim Real de Atenas (1921)

Short stories

Ø  Alma Primitiva (1895)

Ø  Baladas e Fantasias (1900)

Ø  Quase Parábola (1913)

Ø  Ariadne (1922)

Ø  Casos do Amor e do Instinto (1924)

Ø  O Eterno e o Efêmero (1936)

Other

Ø  José de Alencar (essay — 1895)

Ø  Homens e Livros (studies — 1902)