Eugénio de Castro

{{Short description|Portuguese poet}}

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Eugénio de Castro e Almeida (March 4, 1869 in Coimbra, Portugal – August 17, 1944) was a Portuguese writer and a poet.{{Cite web |title=Eugénio de Castro {{!}} Portuguese poet {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eugenio-de-Castro |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Fein |first=John M. |date=1958 |title=Eugénio de Castro and the Introduction of Modernismo to Spain |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/460300 |journal=PMLA |volume=73 |issue=5 |pages=556–561 |doi=10.2307/460300 |jstor=460300 |s2cid=163241957 |issn=0030-8129}} He was a professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra and attended Escola Normal Superior in the same university.

His contribution in poetry was divided in two sections: the first symbolic and the second where the author used new rhymes, metric (Alexandrine verses) and richer vocabulary. The author also written about Ancient classics.