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8°, original plain wrappers with dust jacket (small stains at spine ends; very minor wear). Title-page in red and black within wood-engraved border, wood-engraved vignettes. Nicely printed on high-quality paper. Uncut and partially unopened. Minor stains. In very good, near fine condition. Author's signed three-line presentation inscription to the distinguished Portuguese writer Henrique Lopes de Mendonça on initial blank leaf recto: "Ao eminente escritor // Henrique Lopes de Mendonça //Affonso Lopes Vieira". (1 blank l.), 133 pp., (2, 1 blank ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of this book of poems. A reprint appeared in 2002.Afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was Portugal's best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as Redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, São Pedro de Moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in Europe and North Africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.Lopes Vieira's earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g. Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early Portuguese literature, aiming to "reaportuguesar Portugal tornando-o europeau." During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited Montemayor's Diana, the Amadis, and Rodrigues Lobo. His Portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the periodical Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote essays and fiction, as well as works for children, e.g. Animais nossos amigos, 1911 and Canto infantil, 1912.Provenance: Henrique Lopes de Mendonça (1856-1931), dramatist, novelist, historian, biographer, poet, naval officer and history teacher at the Escola Naval, also taught at the Escola de Belas Artes in Lisbon, served as president of the Academia das Ciências, and founded in 1925 of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores. He also wrote the lyrics for the Portuguese national anthem. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 313; Aníbal Pinto de Castro in Biblos, III, 667-9; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 390-1; and Luciana Stegagno Picchio, História do teatro português, pp.278-9, 281, 284, 315, 412-3, 415, 416, 418, 443.*** Santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 10. See Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; Bell, Portuguese Literature, p. 337: "There is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future." Also Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501-2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214-6. Porbase locates four copies: two in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and one each in the Biblioteca João Paulo II-Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Jisc locates a single copy, at British Library. NUC: DLC, CU, NN, DCU, NcU, CaBVa. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22149
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