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Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima
1872–1921
A restless, visionary voice from early modernist Portugal, he is remembered for poems that feel strange, musical, and startlingly ahead of their time. His life was difficult and often marked by illness, but his work found a lasting place in the story of Portuguese literature.
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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, he studied at the Colégio Militar in Lisbon and later enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Porto. He was both a poet and a painter, and he is now associated with the rise of literary modernism in Portugal.
His life was deeply affected by mental illness, and he spent long periods in psychiatric institutions, including Rilhafoles in Lisbon, where he died in 1921. During his lifetime, his writing appeared only in a small number of journals and magazines, but his contribution to Orpheu linked him to one of the most important modernist circles in Portuguese letters.
Readers often remember his poetry for its unusual imagery, neologisms, and unexpected associations. Although he was little known while alive, his reputation grew after his death, and a collected edition of his work was published in 1971.