lus de cames

Lus Vaz de Cames (sometimes rendered in English as Camoens) (1524 – June 10, 1580) is generally considered Portugal's greatest poet. His mastery and art is only comparable in greatness to Virgil, Dante or Shakespeare. He penned dozens of sonnets and other poems, but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusadas. He was born in Lisbon. When he was very young, legend says, he fell in love with a lady of the court. The lady had also caught the king's eye, however, and so Cames was sent into exile. The lady died of a broken heart, and Cames thought so much of her that he never married. After her death, he went to fight the Moors in Morocco, and in a battle an arrow put out one of his eyes. He hoped to get some office when he returned to court, but none were given to him. Instead, he sailed for Goa in the East Indies, saying, as he left Portugal: "Ungrateful country, thou shall not possess my bones." In Goa he made the Portuguese soldiers angry with a satirical poem and he was banished to Macao, where he was given an office with salary enough for his support. While living there, he wrote Os Lusadas, named from the fabled hero Lusus, who is said to have come with Ulysses to what is now Portugal and called it Lusitania. The poem tells about Vasco da Gama and other Portuguese heroes who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and opened a new route to the Indies. Eventually, Cames was recalled from exile and he set sail for home. However, he was shipwrecked, and was only saved by floating on a board. He went to Goa again and was arrested for debt and kept in prison for eight years, when he was allowed to go to Lisbon in 1569. For a time, the king gave him a small pension, but when the king died the pension ended and Cames lived in poverty, cared for by a servant who had followed him from India, and who begged in the streets by night to get enough for them to eat. He finally died in Lisbon at the age of 56.

Work

Cames wrote several poetries and texts (including some in Castilian), the most known being the epic The Lusiads (1572). The following plays are dated as of 1587:

In addition, three letters that he wrote are known to have survived.

External links

http://www.poetry-portal.com/poets15.html

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