O Hissope

poem by Cruz e Silva

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In arcádia
Cruz e Silva’s mock-heroic poem O Hissope (1768), inspired by the French poet Nicolas Boileau’s mock epic Le Lutrin (1674), was a telling satirical document. Pedro António Correia Garção, the most prominent Arcadian, was an accomplished devotee of the Latin classical poet Horace. The bucolic verse of Dómingos dos Reis…
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