This is a 1922 collection of essays surveying Portuguese literature. Aubrey F. G. Bell introduces its main periods and writers for English-speaking readers. It is worth listening to as a concise historical overview of a rich literary tradition.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
PORTUGUESE LITERATURE Oxford University Press London Edinburgh Glasgow Copenhagen New York Toronto Melbourne Cape Town Bombay Calcutta Madras Shanghai Humphrey Milford Publisher to the UƿƗ΄ŧǡǪƗǵΏ
PORTUGUESE LITERATURE ВУ AUBREY F. G. BELL OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1922
TO THE TRUE PORTUGAL OF THE FUTURE
La letteratura, dalla quale sola potrebbe aver sodo principio la rigenerazione della nostra patria.
GƗĵŕLjƽLj LŧLjǙĵǡŠƗ.
This book was ready in October 1916, but the war delayed its publication. A few alterations have now been made in order to bring it up to date. It is needless to say how welcome will be further suggestions, especially for the bibliography. Only by such help can a book of this kind become useful, since its object is not to expatiate upon schools and theories but to give with as much accuracy as possible the main facts concerning the work and life of each individual author.
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