Luís Vaz de Camões

Name: The Lusiad
Author: Luís Vaz de Camões

The Lusiad (1791)

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“The Lusiad”, published in 1791, is a work by Luís Vaz de Camões. It explores elements such as Lusiad, Strangford and Camoëns.

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ Luis de Camoëns, the author of the Lusiad, was born at Lisbon about A.D. 1524. His misfortunes began with his birth--he never saw a father’s smile - for Simon Vasco de Camoëns perished by shipwreck in the very year which gave being to his illustrious son. The future poet was sent to the university of Coimbra--then at the height of its fame,--"and maintained there by the provident care of his surviving parent."
"Love," says Lord Strangford, "is very nearly allied to devotion, and it was in the exercise of the latter, that Camoëns was introduced to the knowledge of the former. ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ For his own performance Musgrave claims the merit of greater fidelity to the original; but in respect of harmony, in true poetic grace, and sublimity of diction, his translation will bear no comparison with Mickle’s version; for even Southey, in the article before quoted, though very hard upon his interpolations, admits that, "Mickle was a man of genius . . . a man whom we admire and respect; whose memory is without a spot, and whose name will live among the English poets." ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ In one of the engagements with the enemy our hero had the misfortune to lose "his right eye, by some splinters from the deck of the vessel in which he was stationed. Many of his most pathetic compositions were written during this campaign, and the toils of a martial life were sweetened by the recollection of her for whose sake they were endured. ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ Lord Strangford has related, on the authority of Sousa, that while our poet was languishing in poverty at Lisbon, "a cavalier, named Ruy de Camera, called on him one day, asking him to finish for him a poetical version of the seven penitential psalms. Raising his head from his wretched pallet, and pointing to his faithful Javanese attendant, he exclaimed, ‘Alas, when I was a poet, I was young, and happy, and blest with the love of ladies ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ Poems of Luis de Camoëns, with Remarks on his Life and Writings. By Lord Viscount Strangford. Fifth edition. London, 1808. The Camaõ. Formerly every well-regulated family in Spain retained one of these terrible attendants. The infidelity of its mistress was the only circumstance which could deprive it of life, This odious distrust of female honour is ever characteristic of a barbarous age. The laws of Portugal were peculiarly severe against those who carried on a love-intrigue within the palace: "they punished the offence with death. ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ OR,
THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA.
AN EPIC POEM.
TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE OF LUIS DE CAMÕES.
WITH A LIFE OF THE POET.
BY WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE.
FIFTH EDITION, REVISED,
BY E. RICHMOND HODGES, M.C.P., HON. LIBRARIAN TO THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY,
Editor of Cary’s Ancient Fragments, The Principia Hebraica, etc., etc.
NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION This etext created from the 1877 Edition published by G. Bell, London, in Bohn’s standard library. Originally published 1776. Scanned at sacred-texts.com, April 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ Of his adventures in China, and the temporary prosperity he enjoyed there, while he held the somewhat uncongenial office of Provedor dos defuntos, i.e., Trustee for deceased persons, Mickle has given an ample account in the introduction to the Lusiad. During those years Camoëns completed his poem, about half of which was written before he left Europe. ”

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Luís Vaz de Camões, The Lusiad (1791)

“ Moreover, I have supplied the arguments to the several cantos, given a few more explanatory notes, and added a table of contents.
"The late ingenious translator of the Lusiad,"* says Lord Strangford, "has portrayed the character, and narrated the misfortunes of our poet, in a manner more honourable to his feelings as a man than to his accuracy in point of biographical detail. It is with diffidence that the present writer essays to correct his errors; but, as the real circumstances of the life of Camoëns are mostly to be found in his own minor compositions, with which Mr. ”

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