Garção, Pedro António Correia

Garção, Pedro António Correia

▪ Portuguese poet
born April 29, 1724, Lisbon, Port.
died Nov. 10, 1772, Lisbon

      one of Portugal's principal Neoclassical poets.

      Garção studied law at Coimbra but apparently took no degree. His marriage in 1751 brought him a rich dowry, and he had a moderately lucrative government post in the India House as an administrator, but later a lawsuit reduced him to poverty. From 1760 to 1762 he edited the Gazeta de Lisboa. In 1756 he became a member of Arcádia Lusitana, a literary society founded to rid Portuguese poetry of the archaisms, conceits, and windy rhetoric still persisting from the 17th century. For reasons that are still obscure, Garção was arrested in April 1771 and imprisoned but was never brought to trial. He died on the day of his release.

      Taking the ancient Latin poet Horace as his model, Garção adopted a classical simplicity. His sonnets and epistles reveal him as a man of good taste and good sense, devoted to his friends and possessing high ideals of conduct and of art. The Teatro Novo (1766; “New Theatre”) attacked foreign influences in the theatre, especially Italianate ones, and the Assembléia ou Partida (“Meeting or Parting”) satirized the social life of Lisbon. In the “Cantata de Dido,” included in the latter play, he combined the spirit of classical art with perfection of form to produce one of the most celebrated 18th-century Portuguese poems.

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