author
Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima
1872–1921
A vivid and unusual voice in Portuguese poetry, he is remembered as a contributor to the modernist magazine Orpheu and for work that feels intense, musical, and strikingly original. His life was marked by hardship and long periods of psychiatric institutionalization, which have become part of the story surrounding his writing.
1 Audiobook
Orpheu Nº2 Revista Trimestral de Literatura
by Alvaro de Campos, Violante Cisneiros, Eduardo Guimarães, Raul de Oliveira Sousa Leal, Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima, Luís de Montalvor, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro
About the author
Born in Porto in 1872, this Portuguese poet is generally known as Ângelo de Lima. Sources describe him as a precocious child who later studied at the Colégio Militar in Lisbon and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Porto.
He is closely linked with Portuguese literary modernism, especially through his appearance in Orpheu in 1915. Although he did not publish a book during his lifetime, his poems continued to attract attention for their daring imagery and their place between symbolism and modernism.
He died in Lisbon in 1921, at age 49. Accounts of his life consistently note serious mental illness and repeated hospitalization, and that difficult personal history has often shaped how later readers approached his work.