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Gonçalves Dias
Antônio Gonçalves Dias
(; August 10, 1823 – November 3, 1864) was a
Brazilian
Romantic
poet
,
playwright
,
ethnographer
,
lawyer
and
linguist
. A major exponent of Brazilian Romanticism and of the literary tradition known as "
Indianism
", he is famous for writing "
Canção do exílio
" — arguably the most well-known poem of Brazilian literature —, the short
narrative poem
I-Juca-Pirama
, the unfinished
epic
Os Timbiras
, and many other
nationalist
and
patriotic
poems that would award him posthumously with the title of
national poet
of Brazil. He was also an avid researcher of
Native Brazilian
languages and folklore.
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