Chapter IV: Book III

FROM THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE END OF THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Preliminary observations 328

CHAP. I.

GENERAL HISTORY OF POETICAL AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION
IN PORTUGAL DURING THIS PERIOD.

Total decay of Portuguese literature towards the end of the
seventeenth century 329

Establishment of the Portuguese academy in 1714 331

Administration of the Marquis of Pombal 333

Revived spirit of literature--utility of the Portuguese academy
of sciences 334

CHAP. II.

HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY DURING THIS PERIOD.

The Conde da Ericeyra 336

General character of his works 338

His Henriqueida 340

Continuance of corrupt taste in Portuguese poetry--Barros
Pereira--Antonio de Lima 347

The Portuguese drama in the first half of the eighteenth
century 350

Spurious dramas called operas ibid

RESUMPTION OF AN IMPROVED STYLE IN PORTUGUESE POETRY.

Manoel da Costa 357

His successful imitation of Cantatas in the style of
Metastasio 362

Progress of Portuguese poetry in the latter part of the
eighteenth century 364

Translations of latin classics into the Portuguese language 365

Titles of some of the poems produced in this period 366

Garçaõ--his imitation of Horace’s odes 367

His dramas in the style of Terence 372

The Abbot Paulino 375

Dona Catharina de Sousa--Her tragedy of Osmia 377

Failure of Osmia on the stage--prevalence of dramatic
imitations and translations 383

Recent Portuguese poets--in particular Tolentino da Almeida 384

Araujo de Azavedo--his translations of English poems 386

CHAP. III.

HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE ELOQUENCE, CRITICISM AND RHETORIC,
DURING THIS PERIOD.

Further decline of Portuguese eloquence 387

New cultivation of eloquence--Classical prose authors still
wanting in modern Portuguese literature 390

Romantic prose--translations 391

Portuguese criticism of the eighteenth century ibid

Ericeyra’s introduction to his Henriqueida 392

Garçaõ’s lectures 395

Philological and critical treatises of the Academicians--Joaquim
de Foyos--Francisco Dias--Antonio das Naves, &c. 398

Compendium of rhetoric by Antonio Teixeira de Magalhaens 402

CONCLUSION.

Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish literature 403

HISTORY

OF

_PORTUGUESE LITERATURE_.