Camões – A Global Poet for Today

Luís de Camões (1524(?)–1580) lived in a world in transition. The existential pilgrimage recorded in his poetry is a search for something as indefinable, and as revolutionarily modern, as the pursuit of happiness on earth. In the process, he was a poet of doubt rather than certainty, rupture rather than continuity, immanence rather than transcendence, experience rather than faith and, at the end of a life "scattered in pieces throughout the world", he found fragmentation instead of the totality he had desired. Ler mais…