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Life and work

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765/1805). He published the first volume of Rimas in 1791 (the second would come out in 1799) and was invited to be part of the Academia das Belas Artes or Nova Arcádia that met at the Palácio do Conde Pombeiro, with Domingos Caldas Barbosa – Lereno – presiding on Wednesdays.

It is there that he takes the Arcadian name of Elmano Sadino. Translates Tasso (Jerusalem Liberated), Voltaire, Lucan, Ovid. A certain aura of genius and misfortune mythologized the poet; engravings and poems helped to establish his image: dark face, messy hair, blue eyes. What they say they reveal – “purity, great bitterness in the mouth” – highlights the autobiographical strength that emerges from his poetry.

Exalted, impatient, fickle, inadaptable, are characteristics that stand out to him. All added up to an irritable sensitivity. Bocage's poetry is clearly classicist poetry. Despite everything, it is from his irreverence and libertarian awareness of a violently original individuality that the seed will sprout that will allow romantics to find other ways of expressing interiority. The concept of poet that Bocage represents is therefore that of the handler of language as an instrument of a poet capable of saying – copying – the natural truth and not that of the poet as an agent of an unruly innovative imagination.

Sculptor João Antero

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