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A. A. Soares de (Antonio Augusto Soares) Passos
1826–1860
A key voice in Portuguese Ultra-Romanticism, this poet wrote with striking intensity about longing, sorrow, and the darker side of feeling. His short life left behind work that helped define a whole literary mood in 19th-century Portugal.
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by A. A. Soares de (Antonio Augusto Soares) Passos
About the author
Born in Porto on November 27, 1826, he became one of the best-known Portuguese poets of the Ultra-Romantic movement. He studied law at the University of Coimbra, where he moved in literary circles and helped found the journal O Novo Trovador.
His poetry is remembered for its emotional force, melancholy tone, and fascination with love, death, and inner turmoil. Those qualities made him an important figure in Portuguese Romanticism, and he is often described as a leading representative of Ultra-Romanticism in Portugal.
He returned to Porto after his studies and died there on February 8, 1860, still very young. Even with a brief life and career, his work endured and secured his place in Portuguese literary history.