Cassiano Ricardo
{{Short description|Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet}}
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| image = Cassiano Ricardo At The ABL 1937.jpg
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| caption = Cassiano Ricardo in 1937
| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|07|26}}
| birth_place = São José dos Campos, Brazil
| death_date = {{death date and age|1974|01|14|1895|07|26}}
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| occupation = Journalist, literary critic, poet
| genre = Concrete poetry, symbolist poetry
| subjects =
| movement = Brazilian modernism
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Cassiano Ricardo (July 26, 1895 – January 14, 1974) was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet.
An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the Green-Yellow and Anta groups of the movement before launching the Flag group, a social-democratic reaction to these groups. His work evolved into concrete poetry at the end of his career.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
Early life
Cassiano Ricardo was born in São José dos Campos, São Paulo in 1895.{{sfn|Balderston|Gonzalez|2004|p=492}}
Career
File:Cassiano Ricardo (1960).tif
Ricardo, formerly a Symbolist poet, became a late adherent to Brazilian modernism and co-founded the mystical nationalist journal Novíssima.{{sfn|Balderston|Gonzalez|2004|p=492}} In the following year, 1926, he launched the Green-Yellow movement,{{sfn|Balderston|Gonzalez|2004|p=492}} with Menotti del Picchia, Cândido Motta Filho and Plínio Salgado.{{sfn|Bosi|2015|p=366}} In 1928, he co-founded the Flag group, again with Menotti del Picchia and Cândido Motta Filho.{{sfn|Bosi|2015|p=391}}
His 1928 book Marcha para Oeste supported the frontier for being both anti-liberal and democratic.{{sfn|Aguiar|1979|pp=20–23}} He held a hierarchical view of such a society with the whites holding "the spirit of adventure and command".{{sfn|Garfield|2001|p=32}}
In 1937, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he campaigned for the Modernist poets to be formally recognized and appreciated.{{sfn|Bosi|2015|p=391}}
Bibliography
- Dentro da noite (1915)
- A flauta de Pã (1917)
- Jardim das Hespérides (1920)
- A mentirosa de olhos verdes (1924)
- Vamos caçar papagaios (1926)
- Borrões de verde e amarelo (1927)
- Martim Cererê (1928)
- Deixa estar, jacaré (1931)
- Canções da minha ternura (1930)
- Marcha para Oeste (1940)
- O sangue das horas (1943)
- Um dia depois do outro (1947)
- Poemas murais (1950)
- A face perdida (1950)
- O arranha-céu de vidro (1956)
- João Torto e a fábula (1956)
- Poesias completas (1957)
- Montanha russa (1960)
- A difícil manhã (1960)
- Jeremias sem-chorar (1964)
- Os sobreviventes (1971)
References
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- {{cite book |last=Aguiar |first=Neuma |author-link=Neuma Aguiar |title=The Structure of Brazilian Development |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-uaRJgC9QboC |location=New Brunswick |publisher= Transaction Publishers |year=1979 |isbn=0-87855-138-7 }}
- {{cite book |editor-last1=Balderston |editor-first1=Daniel |editor-last2=Gonzalez |editor-first2=Mike |title=Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fM7L8U-CtaQC |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |year=2004|isbn=978-0415306874 }}
- {{cite book |last=Bosi |first=Alfredo|author-link=Alfredo Bosi |title= História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LG944ZsniVcC |location=São Paulo |publisher=Cultrix |year=2015 |orig-year=1970 |language=pt |isbn=978-85-316-0189-7 }}
- {{cite book |last=Garfield |first=Seth |title=Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kTUd45or1AEC |location=Durham & London |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0822326656 }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190911070738/http://www.fccr.org.br/ FCCR - Fundação Cultural Cassiano Ricardo]
{{Patrons and members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters}}
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Brazilian Academy of Letters - Occupant of the 31st chair
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Category:People from São José dos Campos
Category:Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Category:20th-century Brazilian poets
Category:20th-century Brazilian essayists