(Vinicius de Moraes, October 19, 1913 – July 9, 1980)
At 100, at 125
T. S. Eliot was 25 when Vinicius was born,
which makes Vinicius a late or second-generation
modernist. Who would you rather be, the querulous sybil
of The Waste Land or the burly enunciator of “Porque hoje
é sábado”? The progenitor of Prufrock’s self-sorrow or
the seaside chope drinker who bleats his complaint?
This is a not a test. It is, though, a no-brainer.
October 14, 2013
George Monteiro is a lifelong student and teacher of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, contributing to the scholarship on numerous writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and Bob Dylan. His latest book is Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed (McFarland, 2012).
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