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António Nobre
(1867-1900)
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Caught
between various currents: ultra-romanticism, symbolism, decadentism and saudosismo (a movement which was interested in the resurgence of
national values), he was the author of Só,
1892. This was a series of poems expressing great lamentation and nostalgia, and
exhibiting a subjectivism that was tormented by the conflicts affecting the
generation of the fin-de-siècle
period, although his writing was nonetheless tempered by a certain sense of
self-irony. It was this latter condition that helped to shape certain formal
contributions marking a break from poetic genres, particularly in the use of
colloquial discourse and in the strophic and rhythmical diversification of the
poems.
 View of the River Mondego and the city of Coimbra |
