Haroldo de Campos
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Haroldo Eurico Browne de Campos (SĂŁo Paulo, August 19, 1929 - SĂŁo Paulo, August 16, 2003) was a Brazilian baroque poet and translator. Haroldo studied at ColĂ©gio SĂŁo Bento, where he learned his first foreign languages, such as Latin, English, Spanish and French. He entered the Faculty of Law at the University of SĂŁo Paulo at the end of the 1940s and released his first book, O Auto do Possesso, in 1949, when he took part in the Poetry Club alongside DĂ©cio Pignatari. In 1952, DĂ©cio, Haroldo and his brother Augusto de Campos broke with the Club because they disagreed with the prevailing conservatism among the poets, known as the âGeneration of '45â. They then founded the Noigandres group and began publishing poems in the group's magazine, with the same title. In the following years, he defended the theses that would lead the three of them to inaugurate, in 1956, the concretist movement, to which he remained faithful until 1963, when he inaugurated a particular path, focusing his attention on the project of the book-poem âGalĂĄxiasâ. Description above from the Wikipedia article Haroldo de Campos licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
