Tasso da Silveira

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Tasso Azevedo da Silveira OSE (11 March 1895 – 3 December 1968) was a Brazilian writer. Silveira was one of the main representatives of the spiritualist wing of Brazilian modernism, alongside Alceu Amoroso Lima and Cecília Meireles. He was highly regarded in literary circles, being considered by Gerardo Melo Mourão as "perhaps the greatest Christian poet of our letters."[1]

Alceu Amoroso Lima stated that Tasso's work is the one in Brazil that possesses "poetry in its purest state".[2] Reacting against the cosmopolitan city, he emphasises a lyricism built on the feeling of the imponderable. According to Adonias Filho, Tasso da Silveira's poetry revolves around Brazil and love for the country, with a concrete and clear mission: to save it from its misfortunes. In this way, Silveira sought to bring about a redemption so that Brazil could take on the vocation of being the "new elected", to "reintroduce lost innocence to the world". Tasso da Silveira was thus given the title of "the poet of the Brazilian people".[3]

In 1957, he was honoured by the Brazilian Academy of Letters with the Machado de Assis Prize for the totality of his work.[4]

Biography

Tasso da Silveira was born in Curitiba, the son of the symbolist poet Silveira Neto. He graduated in Legal and Social Sciences from the National Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Alongside Oscar Martins Gomes, Lacerda Pinto and José Guahiba, he founded the magazine Fanal, a periodical that was the literary organ of the New Cenacle group and circulated between 1911 and 1913. It belonged to the literary avant-garde movement that took place at the beginning of the 20th century in Paraná, known as os novos ("the new ones") or os novíssimos ("the newest ones"), with such poets as Murilo Araújo and Barreto Filho. Silveira belonged to the Festa magazine literary circle,[5] of which he was one of the founders.[6]

He was a disciple and friend of the philosopher Raimundo de Farias Brito, and attended his wake and burial with his family. In the circle of people close to Farias Brito, he was joined by Jackson de Figueiredo, Andrade Muricy, Nestor Vítor and others.[7]

He made his debut as a poet with Fio d'Água (1918), and adopted free verse from his third book, Alegorias do Homem Novo (1926). Silveira also translated Nikolai Berdyaev's The New Middle Ages[8], René Fontenelle's biography of Pius XI[9] and Karl Adam's The Spirit of Catholicism[10] into Portuguese.

He collaborated with various literary magazines in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. His work can be found in the Portuguese-Brazilian magazine Atlântico.[11] He contributed to A Ordem and the Dom Vital Center, although he always maintained a certain distance with the main characteristics of this organisation.

Tasso da Silveira taught Portuguese literature at the Pontifical Catholic and Santa Úrsula universities in Rio de Janeiro.

In November 1936, he joined the Brazilian Integralist Action (AIB).[12] Within the movement, he became Provincial Secretary for Studies of the Guanabara centre.[13] The following year, he published the book Estado Corporativo, explaining the integralist doctrine and criticising the various liberalisms. He went so far as to say that, as an integralist, he was ready to be martyred at any moment. During the Estado Novo, he directed the integralist magazine Cadernos da Hora Presente (1939–1940). In 1945, he was one of the signatories of an Open Letter from former integralist leaders in defence of the movement. In the 1947 and 1950 elections, he ran for councillor in Rio de Janeiro for the Popular Representation Party, the successor to the AIB.[14] From 1953 onwards, he took part in the Grand Council of the White Eagle Movement, also of an integralist nature.[15]

On 11 December 1941 he was made an Officer of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword of Portugal.

Works

  • Jackson de Figueiredo (1916; criticism)
  • Fio d'Água (1918; poetry)
  • Romain Rolland e a América Latina (1919)[16]
  • A Igreja silenciosa (1922; essays)
  • A alma heroica dos homens (1924; poetry)
  • Alegorias do homem novo (1926; poetry)
  • As imagens acesas (1928; poetry)
  • Cântico ao Cristo do Corcovado (1931; poetry)
  • Definição do Modernismo Brasileiro (1932; criticism)
  • Discurso ao povo infiel (1933; poetry)
  • Tendências do pensamento contemporâneo (1935; essays)
  • Descobrimento da Vida (1936; anthology)
  • 30 Espíritos-Fontes (1937; essays)
  • O sagrado esforço do homem (1937; anthology)
  • Estado Corporativo (1937; political science)
  • Caminhos do Espírito (1937; essays)
  • Gil Vicente e outros estudos portugueses (1940; criticism)
  • O Canto Absoluto (1940; poetry)
  • Alegria do mundo (1940; poetry)
  • Só tu voltaste? (1941; novel)
  • Cantos do campo de batalha (1945; poetry)
  • As qualidades e as virtudes de Euclides da Cunha (1954; criticism; with Plínio Salgado)
  • Contemplação do Eterno (1952; poetry)
  • Canções a Curitiba (1955; anthology)
  • Puro Canto (1956; poetry)
  • Sombras no Caos (1959; novel)
  • Regresso à Origem (1960; poetry)
  • Puro Canto (1962; collected poetry)
  • Literatura comparada (1964)
  • Cruz e Sousa: Poesia (1967; anthology)
  • Diálogo com as raízes (1971; essays)
  • O Sentido da Tradição (2022; essays)

Notes

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References

  • Andrade, Mário de (1972). "Tasso da Silveira." In: O Empalhador de Passarinho. São Paulo: Livraria Martins Editora, pp. 82–94.
  • Caccese, Neusa Pinsard (1971). Festa: Contribuições para o Estudo do Modernismo. São Paulo: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros.
  • Coutinho, Afrânio (1969). An Introduction to Literature in Brazil. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Figuera, Gastón (1943). "Visión de la Nueva Poesía del Brasil," Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. VI, No. 12, pp. 335–63.
  • Horopan, Alexandra (1957). "Puro Canto de Tasso da Silveira," Revista Branca, Vol. XXXII, pp. 61–64, 66–69.
  • Martins Gomes, O. (1969). "Tasso da Silveira e Seus Itinerário Luminoso," Revista Letras, Vol. XVII, pp. 3–22.
  • Ribeiro, Joaquim (1939). Itinerário Lírico de Tasso da Silveira. Rio de Janeiro: Alba.
  • Sampaio, Newton (1979). Uma Visão Literária dos Anos 30. Curitiba: Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Prefeitura Municipal de Curitiba.
  • Víctor, Nestor (1938). Os de Hoje: Figuras do Movimento Modernista Brasileiro. SP: Cultura Modema.

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  1. ↑ Melo Mourão, Gerardo (1990). "Apresentação". In: Cântico ao Cristo do Corcovado . São Paulo: Edições GRD, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Lima, Alceu Amoroso (1962). "Tasso da Silveira e Sua Poesia". In: Puro Canto. São Paulo: GRD.
  3. ↑ Filho, Adonias (11 de março de 1955). "Tasso da Silveira e o Tema da Poesia Eterna," A Marcha, No. 105, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Fangueiro, Maria do Sameiro. "Tasso da Silveira," Biblioteca Nacional Digital. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  5. ↑ Lamego, Valéria (1996). A Farpa na Lira. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record, p. 15.
  6. ↑ The magazine Festa, founded by Tasso da Silveira and Andrade Murici, had two phases, the first from 1927–29 and the second from 1934–35.
  7. ↑ Serrano, Jônatas (1939). Farias Brito: O Homem e a Obra. Rio de Janeiro: Companhia Editora Nacional, pp. 266–68.
  8. ↑ Berdiaeff, Nicolau (1936). Uma Nova Idade Média. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio.
  9. ↑ Fontenelle, Renato (1941). Pio XI. Petrópolis/RJ: Vozes.
  10. ↑ Adam, Karl (1942). A Essencia do Catolicismo. Petrópolis/RJ: Vozes.
  11. ↑ Roldão, Helena (12 de Outubro de 2012). "Ficha Histórica: Atlântico: Revista Luso-brasileira (1942-1950)". Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  12. ↑ "Tasso da Silveira e o Integralismo," A Razão (5 de novembro de 1936).
  13. ↑ Monitor Integralista, No. 21 (17 de julho de 1937), p. 1.
  14. ↑ See "Candidatos a vereador ao Conselho Municipal do Distrito Federal," A Manhã (5 de janeiro de 1947), p. 11; also see "Partido de Representação Popular — Para a Câmara dos Vereadores," O Jornal (24 de setembro de 1950), p. 5.
  15. ↑ Oliveira, Laura (2015). Guerra Fria e Política Editorial. Maringá: Eduem, p. 59.
  16. ↑ Ataíde, Tristão de (8 de Março de 1920). "Bibliografia," O Jornal, Ano II, No. 265, p. 2.
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