THE ARRIVAL OF THE ELIZABETHAN SONNET TO BRAZILIAN POETRY

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ABSTRACT

This essay sets out to see in what way the sonnet form in Brazilian literature was transformed through the personality of the poets of modernity who knew and tried to write English sonnets as one way of actualizing poetic language and one way of struggling with the inertia of poetic forms which had ceased to allow a genuine poetic expression. This study was suggested by the fact that the sonnet in Portuguese literature has been used in the form of Shakespeare and not of Camões by many modern writers, especially Jorge de Sena, in an effort to renew this form and make it adequate for the literary task it has to face in the twentieth century.

Keywords: Brazilian Literature. Poets Modernity. Poetic expression.