Angelo de Lima

Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima (born July 30, 1872 in Porto , Portugal , † August 14, 1921 in Lisbon , Portugal) was a Portuguese poet who is considered one of the pioneers of literary modernism in Portugal.

Life

Angelo de Lima was born the son of Pedro de Lima , who was himself a well-known romantic poet. He first attended the Colegio Militar in Lisbon in 1882 before enrolling at the Academia de Belas Artes ( Academy of Fine Arts ) in Porto in 1888 . In 1891 and 1892 he voluntarily took part in various military campaigns in Mozambique and it was here that the first signs of his mental illness appeared . This meant that it in 1894 in the hospital Conde de Ferreira came to Porto and remained there until the 1898th From 1898 he tried his hand at working as a freelance artist and poet, but was unsuccessful and in 1901 ended up again in a sanatorium, this time in Lisbon, where he had last lived. He was admitted to Rilhafoles, the most famous sanatorium in Portugal; he stayed there until his death.

His literary work during his lifetime only refers to a few poetry publications in magazines such as A Geraçao Nova or Revista Azul as well as the legendary magazine by Fernando Pessoa , Orpheu , for whose second title he contributed poems in 1915. Known only to a narrow literary public during his lifetime, he is now considered to be one of the founders of Portuguese modernism. Some poems were given romantic, surrealistic, and symbolic traits. He wrote sonnets and poems with neologistic words and unusual associations. Sometimes poems were written in those short moments when he could still think and feel clearly, even if these were rare.

The poet died on August 14, 1921 in the Rilhafoles asylum in Lisbon. Angelo de Lima's complete works only appeared in 1971, fifty years after his death.

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Poemas completas, 1971, posthumously.

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SURNAME	Lima, Ângelo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lima, Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Porto , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1921
Place of death	Lisbon , Portugal