Author:Luís de Camões

←Author Index: Ca

Luís de Camões (1524–1580)

• sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, Commons category, quotes, Wikidata item.

name is anglicized as Camoens; considered Portugal's greatest poet for his mastery of verse that has been compared to that of Homer, Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare; wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama though is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas.

Luís de Camões

Works

Sonnets

• Amor é fogo que arde sem se ver
• Alma minha gentil, que te partiste
• Ah! minha Dinamene! Assim deixaste
• "Em quanto quiz Fortuna que tivesse" in Littell's Living Age, 149 (1921)
• ""Eu cantarei de amor tao docemente"" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1999)
• ""Na metade do Ceo subido ardia"" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1999)
• "No mundo poucos annos, e cansados" in Littell's Living Age, 149 (1921)
• ""Que levas, cruel morte? Hum claro dia"" in Littell's Living Age, 155 (1999)

Epic poetry

• The Lusiads (1572)

Compilations

• Poems, from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens, translated by Percy Smythe, Viscount Strangford (1808). (external scan)
• Camoens: The Lyricks, edited and annotated by Richard Francis Burton (1884), part 1 (transcription project), part 2 (transcription project)
• Dante, Petrarch, Camoens: CXXIV Sonnets, translated by Richard Garnett (1896) (external scan)

Other

• Com Amor a rosa, attributed

Works about Camões

• “The Life of Camões” by William Julius Mickle in his 1776 translation of The Lusiads.
• Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads. A commentary (1881, by Richard Francis Burton) vol. 1 (transcription project), vol. 2 (transcription project)
• "Luis Vaz de Camões," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Camoens, Luis Vaz de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

On his works

• "Lusiads, The," by William T. Brewster in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)