Afonso Duarte

Portuguese poet, he studied Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Coimbra, where he later became a professor. He collaborated in several magazines (Presença, Revista de Portugal, Seara Nova), having also collaborated in A Águia and been the founder and director of Rajada. His poetry, predominantly of popular inspiration, initially linked to saudosismo, did not adhere to any single literary school, accompanying poets from various movements and constantly renewing itself. Considered an original poet in 20th-century Portuguese lyricism, he wrote Cancioneiro das Pedras (1912), Tragédia do Sol-Posto (1914), Rapsódia do Sol-Nado, Seguida do Ritual do Amor (1916), Os Sete Poemas Líricos (1929), Ossadas (1947), Canto de Babilónia (1952), Obra Poética (1956, includes the work O Anjo da Morte), Lápides e Outros Poemas (1960), and Obras Completas (1974).