A poesia de Sophia

Abstract

This essay studies the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (b. 1919), from a global and systematic point of view, describing the foundations of its poetics and integrating it in its literary and cultural origins, with emphasis on the generational con- text of Cadernos de Poesia (1940-1953), to which Tomaz Kim, José Blanc de Portugal, Ruy Cinatti, Jorge de Sena and Eugénio de Andrade also belong. Although these six poets followed different paths, they come together in the same vital altitude, as well as in the same criticai awareness of poetry as expression of human dignity, which is characteristic of one of the most signiflcant and influential axes of the second half of the 20th century.