Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães

Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was born on the 15^th August; he died on the 10^th March 1884. He was a Brazilian poet and a novelist. He is the author of the famous romances of the country called A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. da Silva was the man that introduced to the poetry of the country, the verso bestialógico that is also known as pantagruélico. He was the man that occupied the 5^th chair of the Academy of Letters of the country.

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Biography

da Silva was born in the city of Ouro Preto in the state of Minas Gerais to João Joaquim da Silva Guimarães and Constança Beatriz de Oliveira Guimarães. He graduated at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in the year 1847 and it was there that he became friends with the poets of the country, Álvares de Azevedo and Aureliano Lessa. It was with these people that he started Sociedade Epicureia.

da Silva became a judge in the city of Cataloa, Goias and he held the post till the year 1854. He moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro in the year 1859 and in the next year, he worked a s literary critic in the newspaper of the country called Atualidade. He was returned to his position as the judge in the year 1861, though he moved to the city of Rio de Haneiro in the year 1864. He became a teacher of Poetics and Rhetorics in Ouro Preto in the year 1966.

da Silva got married in the year 1867 and in the year 1873, he became a teacher of Latin and French in the city of Queluz, Minas Gerais.

da Silva is honored by the Monarch of the country, Pedro II in the year 1881. He died poor in the city of Ouro Preto in the year 1884.

Works

Ø  Cantos da Solidão (Solitude Songs — 1852)

Ø  O Ermitão de Muquém (The Hermit of Muquém — 1868)

Ø  Lendas e Romances (Legends and Romances — 1871)

Ø  O Garimpeiro (The Prospector — 1872)

Ø  Histórias da Província de Minas Gerais (Stories from the Minas Gerais Province — 1872)

Ø  O Seminarista (The Seminarist — 1872)

Ø  O Índio Afonso (Afonso the Indian — 1873)

Ø  A Morte de Gonçalves Dias (Gonçalves Dias' Death — 1873)

Ø  A Escrava Isaura (Isaura the Slave — 1875)

Ø  Novas Poesias (New Poems — 1876)

Ø  Maurício, ou; Os Paulistas em São João Del-Rei (Maurício, or; The Paulistas in São João Del-Rei — 1877)

Ø  A Ilha Maldita (The Damned Island — 1879)

Ø  O Pão de Ouro (The Golden Bread — 1879)

Ø  Rosaura, a Enjeitada (The Neglected Rosaura — 1883)

Ø  Folhas de Outono (Autumn Leaves — 1883)

Ø  O Bandido do Rio das Mortes (The Bandit of the Death River — 1904, posthumous)