巴西  (1886 AD～1968 AD)

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　　Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) was a Brazilian poet. Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather. In 1922, after an extended stay in Europe where Bandeira met many prominent authors and painters, he contributed poems of political and social criticism to the Modernist Movement in São Paulo. Bandeira began to publish his most important works in 1924. Bandeira became a respected Brazilian author and wrote articles in several newspapers and magazines, as well as teaching Hispanic Literature in Rio de Janeiro. Bandeira began to translate into Portuguese canonical plays of world literature in 1956, which he continued to do until his last days. He died in Rio de Janeiro.
　　
　　Bandeira's poems are of a unique delicacy and beauty. Recurrent themes can be found in his works: the love of women, his childhood in the Northeast city of Recife, friends, health problems. His delicate health affected his poems, in a manner similar to the last poems of Jorge Luis Borges. Many of Manuel Bandeira's poems depict the limits of the human body.
　　
　　
　　Bibliography
　　A Literature professor, he was elected to the Brazilian Letters Academy where he was the third occupant of the 24th Chair whose patron was Júlio Ribeiro. His election took place on August 29, 1940, succeeding Luís Guimarães and he was formally introduced by academic Riberio Couto on November 30, 1940.
　　
　　He died at the age of 82 on October 18, 1968 in Botafogo (a borough of Rio de Janeiro). His funeral took place at the grand hall of the Brazilian Letters Academy and he was buried at the St. John the Baptist (Port. São João Batista) Cemetery.
　　
　　
　　Poetry
　　Alumbramentos, 1960
　　Antologia Poética
　　Berimbau e Outros Poemas, 1986
　　Carnaval, 1919
　　50 Poemas Escolhidos pelo Autor, 1955
　　A Cinza das Horas, 1917
　　A Cinza das Horas, Carnaval e O Ritmo Dissoluto, 1994
　　Estrela da Manhã, 1936
　　Estrela da Tarde, 1959
　　Estrela da Vida Inteira. Poesias Reunidas, 1966
　　This Earth, That Sky: Poems (English translation of Estrela da vida inteira), 1989
　　Libertinagem, 1930
　　Libertinagem. Estrela da Manhã. Edição crítica, 1998
　　Mafuá do Malungo. Jogos Onomásticos e Outros Versos de Circunstância 1948.
　　O Melhor Soneto de Manuel Bandeira, 1955
　　Os Melhores Poemas de Manuel Bandeira Selected and edited by Francisco de Assis Barbosa, 1984
　　A Morte, 1965. (special edition)
　　Opus 10, 1952
　　Pasárgada, 1959
　　Um Poema de Manuel Bandeira, 1956
　　Poemas de Manuel Bandeira com Motivos Religiosos, 1985
　　Poesia Selected by Alceu Amoroso Lima, 197
　　Poesia e Prosa, 1958
　　Poesias, 192
　　Poesias Completas, 1940
　　Poesias Escolhidas, 1937
　　Seleta em Prosa e Verso Selected and edited by Emanuel de Morais, 1971