Augusto dos Anjo

1884 - 1914

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: parnassianism, Symbolism, Pre-modernism

country of citizenship: Brazil

languages spoken, written or signed: Portuguese

educated at: Faculdade de Direito do Recife

occupation: poet, teacher, writer

influenced by: Herbert Spencer, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernst Haeckel

Augusto de Carvalho Rodrigues dos Anjos (April 20, 1884 – November 12, 1914) was a Brazilian poet and professor. His poems speak mostly of sickness and death, and are considered the forerunners of Modernism in Brazil.He is the patron of the first chair of the Paraiban Academy of Letters. Source: Wikipedia (en)