Antônio Gonçalves Dias (1823–1864), was a Brazilian lyric poet. 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems. ...

Dias was born near the town of Caxias, in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. He attended the University of Coimbra, in Portugal. He returned to his native province ill in 1845, well-equipped with legal lore. The literary tendency which was strong within him, however, which led him to try his fortune as an author at Rio de Janeiro. There, he wrote for the newspaper press, appeared as a dramatist, and in 1846 established his reputation by a volume of poems called Primeiros Cantos (First Chants), which appealed to the national feelings of his Brazilian readers. They were remarkable for their autobiographic impress and by their beauty of expression and rhythm placed their author at the head of the lyric poets of his country. In 1848 he followed up his success with Segundos Cantos e Sextilhas de Frei Antão (Second Chats and Sextilles of Friar Antão), in which, as the title indicates, he puts a number of the pieces in the mouth of a simple old Dominican friar. In the following year, in fulfilment of the duties of his new post as professor of Brazilian history in the Imperial College of Pedro II at Rio de Janeiro, he published an edition of the Annaes Históricos do Maranhão and added a sketch of the migrations of the Indian tribes. Maranhão is one of the states of Brazil in the north-eastern region. ... The University of Coimbra (Universidade de Coimbra) is a Portuguese state university with administrative and financial autonomy in Coimbra, a city of central Portugal. ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Ipanema beach A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A friar is a member of a religious order of men. ... History is a term for information about the past. ...

A third volume of poems, which appeared with the title of Últimos Cantos (Last Chants) in 1851, was practically the poet's last works, for he spent the next eight years engaged under government patronage in studying the state of public instruction in the north and the educational institutions of Europe. On his return to Brazil in 1860, he was appointed a member of an expedition for the exploration of the province of Ceará, was forced in 1862 by the state of his health to try the effects of another visit to Europe, and died in September 1864, the vessel that was carrying him being wrecked off his native shores. While in Leipzig, Germany he published a complete collection of his lyrical poems (which went through several editions), the four first chants of an epic poem called Os Timbiras (1857) and a Dicionário da Lingua Tupi (1858). Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ... World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Ceará is one of the states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. ... 1862 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A shipwreck is the remains of a ship after it has sunk or been beached as a result of a crisis at sea. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig Leipzig [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... In mathematics, see epic morphism. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Source

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...