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THE ROMANTICISM OF ALMEIDA GARRETT'S VIAGENS NA MINHA TERRA

1949; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: 104 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1475382492000326227

1469-3550

N. J. LAMB,

Historical Education and Society

The brilliantly written Viagens na Minha Terra, first published in book form in 1846, is among the most notable productions of Portuguese literature in the nineteenth century and is still firmly established in the affections of the Portuguese reading public. “Garrett da minha alma!”, exclaims the poet António Nobre in his poem entitled Viagens na Minha Terra, and he was not speaking only for the so-called “Neo-Garrettian” generation of 1890–1910. Nevertheless, there have been a few discordant voices, among them that of the distinguished essayist António Sergio, who scorns the “doce farinha de Nestlé das Viagens na Minha Terra.