Francisco Dias Gomes Explained

Francisco Dias Gomes (1745 – 30 September 1795)^[1] was a Portuguese poet and literary critic.

Biography

Francisco Dias Gomes was born in Lisbon,^[2] the son of Fructuoso Dias, a local tradesman, and his wife Vivência Gomes.^[3] His work was little known to contemporary men of letters and his career was spent primarily writing poetry in elegiac meter and studying the progress of Portugal's language and literature.^[4]

He died of an epidemic fever in 1795.^[5]

Works

• Analise e Combinações Filosóficas sobre a Elocução e Estilo de Sá de Miranda, Ferreira, Bernardes, Caminha, e Camões (1792).
• Ifigenia: Tragédia Tirada da História Grega (1798).
• Obras Poeticas de Francisco Dias Gomes (1799).
• Electra (1799).
• Elegia à Morte de hum Homem Honrado e Virtuoso (1799).

Further reading

• Prado Coelho, Jacinto do (1971). "Francisco Dias Gomes, Crítico Literário," Revista da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, II Série, No. 13.

Notes and References

1. Pinheiro Chagas, Manuel (1873). "Francisco Dias Gomes." In: Portuguezes Illustres. Lisboa: Livraria de A. Ferin, p. 142.
2. McElrone, H.P. (1883). "Gomes and Portuguese Poetry," The Catholic World, Vol. 37, No. 221, p. 655.
3. Garção Stockler, Francisco de Borja (1799). "Breve Noticia da Vida e Obras do Autor." In: Obras Poeticas de Francisco Dias Gomes. Lisboa: Academia das Ciências, p. vii.
4. McElrone (1883), p. 657.
5. McElrone (1883), p. 656.