A concepção da natureza na obra poética da Marquesa de Alorna

Abstract

In this study, the author attempts to demonstrate the extent to which the neo-classical and Arcadian education of the Marchioness of Alorna conditioned the use she made of nature in her poetical work, despite her effective knowledge of new romantic aesthetics. The study of one of her translations (or imitations), Thomson's Primavera, allows us to see the form in which she always treats the poetical material of the representation of nature. Special mention will be made to Recreacoes Botanicas (1813), in that in this long poem (in the form of six cantos) we note the didactic concerns, the details and the comparisons proclaimed by Buffon, Daubenton and Saint-Lambert.