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䲹ëԲ
[ kam-oh-ens ]
noun
- Lu·is Vaz de [loo-, eesh, vahzh d, uh], 1524?–80, Portuguese poet.
䲹ëԲ
/ ˈkæməʊˌɛns; kaˈmõiʃ /
noun
- 䲹ëԲLuis Vaz de15241580MPortugueseWRITING: poet Luis Vaz de (lwiʃ vɑʃ ˈdəː). 1524–80, Portuguese epic poet; author of The Lusiads (1572).
Example Sentences
Her poem entitled The Restoration of Works of Art to Italy was published in 1816, her Modern Greece in 1817, and in 1818 Translations from Camoens and other Poets.
Not only is it watered by the Dong-nai and Saigon rivers, but it also embraces the delta of the Mekong, at the mouth of which noble stream the Portuguese poet Camoens was ship-wrecked in the year 1556, swimming to the shore with his left hand, while in his right he held above the waters his manuscript copy of the Lusiad.
Of similar interest were the sets of first editions of Petrarca, Cervantes, Camoens—leaves invaluable to the thinker on human civilisation.
Ariosto 59 Burns 38 Byron 37 Camoens 55 Collins 56 Cowley 49 Cowper 69 Dante 56 Dryden 70 Goldsmith 44 Gray 57 Metastasio 84 Milton 66 Petrarch 68 Pope 56 Shenstone 50 Spenser 46 Tasso 52 Thomson 48 Young 84 Moral Philosophers.
His description of his lady-love is famous among sonnets of lovers and may only be compared with some of the Sonnets from the Portuguese in our own day, or with one or two of Camoens' original sonnets in the Portuguese, for lofty praise of the beloved in worthy numbers.
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