Cassiano Ricardo

Cassiano Ricardo
Cassiano Ricardo in 1937
Born	(1895-07-26)July 26, 1895 São José dos Campos, Brazil
Died	January 14, 1974(1974-01-14) (aged 78)
Occupation	Journalist, literary critic, poet
Genre	Concrete poetry, symbolist poetry
Literary movement	Brazilian modernism

Cassiano Ricardo (July 26, 1895 – January 14, 1974) was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet.

An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the Green-Yellow and Anta groups of the movement before launching the Flag group, a social-democratic reaction to these groups. His work evolved into concrete poetry at the end of his career.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Cassiano Ricardo was born in São José dos Campos, São Paulo in 1895.^[1]

Career

Cassiano Ricardo (right) in 1960

Ricardo, formerly a Symbolist poet, became a late adherent to Brazilian modernism and co-founded the mystical nationalist journal Novíssima.^[1] In the following year, 1926, he launched the Green-Yellow movement,^[1] with Menotti del Picchia, Cândido Motta Filho and Plínio Salgado.^[2] In 1928, he co-founded the Flag group, again with Menotti del Picchia and Cândido Motta Filho.^[3]

His 1928 book Marcha para Oeste supported the frontier for being both anti-liberal and democratic.^[4] He held a hierarchical view of such a society with the whites holding "the spirit of adventure and command".^[5]

In 1937, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he campaigned for the Modernist poets to be formally recognized and appreciated.^[3]

Bibliography

• Dentro da noite (1915)
• A flauta de Pã (1917)
• Jardim das Hespérides (1920)
• A mentirosa de olhos verdes (1924)
• Vamos caçar papagaios (1926)
• Borrões de verde e amarelo (1927)
• Martim Cererê (1928)
• Deixa estar, jacaré (1931)
• Canções da minha ternura (1930)
• Marcha para Oeste (1940)
• O sangue das horas (1943)
• Um dia depois do outro (1947)
• Poemas murais (1950)
• A face perdida (1950)
• O arranha-céu de vidro (1956)
• João Torto e a fábula (1956)
• Poesias completas (1957)
• Montanha russa (1960)
• A difícil manhã (1960)
• Jeremias sem-chorar (1964)
• Os sobreviventes (1971)

References

Footnotes

1. Balderston & Gonzalez 2004, p. 492.
2. Bosi 2015, p. 366.
3. Bosi 2015, p. 391.
4. Aguiar 1979, pp. 20–23.
5. Garfield 2001, p. 32.

Sources

• Aguiar, Neuma (1979). The Structure of Brazilian Development. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0-87855-138-7.
• Balderston, Daniel; Gonzalez, Mike, eds. (2004). Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415306874.
• Bosi, Alfredo (2015) [1970]. História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Cultrix. ISBN 978-85-316-0189-7.
• Garfield, Seth (2001). Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937–1988. Durham & London: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822326656.

External links

• FCCR - Fundação Cultural Cassiano Ricardo

Preceded by Paulo Setúbal

Brazilian Academy of Letters - Occupant of the 31st chair 1937 — 1974

Succeeded by José Cândido de Carvalho