Carvalho Júnior

Carvalho Júnior (Rio de Janeiro RJ, 1855 – 1879) completed his Law degree in São Paulo in 1877. During that period, he worked as a contributor to the São Paulo newspaper A República. His only book of poetry, Parisina, was published in 1789. The poet associated with Afonso Celso Júnior, Artur Azevedo, Ezequiel Freire, Fontoura Xavier, Lúcio de Mendonça, Múcio Teixeira, Teófilo Dias, and Valentim Magalhães. He was a public prosecutor in Angra dos Reis RJ in 1878 and a municipal judge in Rio de Janeiro in 1879. A Parnassian poet, his poems express sensuality in a sometimes raw manner, in vigorous verses, according to Machado de Assis.