Eugénio de Castro e Almeida
Eugénio de Castro e Almeida was born on 4 March 1869 in Coimbra, Portugal. Writer and professor, Eugénio de Castro and his work can be divided into two phases: in the first, the symbolist phase, which corresponded to his poetic production until the end of the nineteenth century. Eugénio de Castro presents some Symbolist School characteristics such as the use of new and rare rhymes, new metric poetry, richer and more musical synesteses, alliterations and vocabulary. In the second or neoclassic phase corresponding to written poems now in the twentieth century, we see a poet focused on Classic Ancient Times and the Portuguese past, which reveals a certain nostalgic characteristic of the first decades of the twentieth century in Portugal. He collaborated with the magazine publications Os insubmissos [The Unsubmissive] and Boémia nova [New Bohemia], both followers of French Symbolism. In 1890 he approached the history of Portuguese in Oaristos [Intimate Chats], the first sign of Symbolism in Portugal. Eugênio de Castro e Almeida died on 17 August 1944.