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42: 872:'s granddaughters, as well as about his being acquainted during his childhood with the most pre-eminent contemporary Brazilian men of letters in his family's salon. According to an obituary written by literary scholar Chris Miller, Tolentino was a character "stranger than fiction", and his claims about literary friendships were at least partially true (e.g. his friendship to Yves Bonnefroy); however, according to the same scholar, Tolentino's exaggerations made it very difficult to tell truth from fiction. 1020:, inspired by an experience in prison during the military dictatorship, although it is widely agreed that he left Brazil in or before 1964. Late in his life, he also came to be regarded as a cult figure by a circle of admirers, mostly for his classicizing stance in both poetry and aesthetics, expressed in a harsh critique of the present for the sake of the transcendental and mystical components of Catholicism. In his last years, Tolentino developed closer ties with conservative Catholicism through the 663: 892:, having published a book of poetry whose title and poems were taken from others. His later self-attributed resounding intellectual feats abroad, as well as his alleged connections with European literary figures, were, according to the same Bueno, simply a hoax, as "in order to have lived all happenings he publicly boasted of, should have lived nearly three hundred years". Bueno, however, eventually downplayed what he saw as his 675: 983:, describing Tolentino as an "international sissy" and "upstart", and his alternative translation of Crane's poem as "limping on every feet and stuffed with poor rhyming, flaccid and adipose". Though biased by polemics and homophobia, this opinion was shared by Alexei Bueno, who, although just as opposed to non-traditional poetic forms as Tolentino, nevertheless considered that 995:. This kind of enjambement-powered barrel-organ, monotone to the extreme, cuts through all of his work Occasionally, amid this boring and obsessive graphomany -- a kind of funfair music -- there are some great lyrical moments, which, however, are not enough to rescue the general emptiness of the whole.". 818:
integrated catalogue (as of 30 June 2010) and perhaps the only library catalogue in which it appears is that of the Albert Sloman Library of the University of Essex. This is a bilingual volume with Portuguese on the left-hand page and French on the right-hand page. Similarly, although published in
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charged Tolentino with having faked his entire biography from the earliest date, beginning with "his manor house and his English private female tutors": according to Bueno, Tolentino had been born "amid the most banal middle-class milieu from the neighbourhood of
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integrated catalogue as of June 17. 2010, although it is present in the Oxford OLIS online catalogue. According to Tolentino's later accounts, both books were acclaimed by European critics, including Ungaretti and Auden, as well as
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is regarded as his most important literary work, developing the core of his ideas about literature. This work also won him the Senador José Ermínio de Moraes Prize, the first occasion on which this prize was awarded to a poet.
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in Brazil. This European stay would last some thirty years. Amongst what he claimed to be his many important relationships in the European cultural scene was the English poet
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in 1993, Tolentino published a series of books, collecting material produced over many years, which he considered to be the culmination of his poetic work. They are
1234: 721:(November 12, 1940 – June 27, 2007) was a Brazilian poet and intellectual, known for his opposition towards the more blatant avant-garde elements of Brazilian 977:, describing Campos as "prepotent and vain", "a delirious authoritarian", and a "vetuste poetic inspector". Campos issued a homophobic rejoinder published in 911:, do not consider the issues mentioned above as real cases of plagiarism and hoaxing in Tolentino's career, highlighting instead his mastery of the art of 1419: 860:
Tolentino was an expert at self-mythologizing. Late in life multiple stories (of uncertain origin) about his life abounded, as claims that he had married
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Nevertheless, Tolentino continued in his activism in defence of high culture. Shortly after the quarrel with Augusto de Campos, in an interview to
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In his late phase, Tolentino adopted an activist stance in defense of classical forms and subjects, and it was as such that he clashed with the
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Others critics have expressed similar doubts about the reality of Tolentino's biographical claims, such as being advised to write in English by
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In a scathing account published in a history of Brazilian literature in the year of Tolentino's death, his fellow-poet
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as chief-editor. Tolentino contributed to all four issues, and supported the magazine financially.
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in the early 2000s, died aged 66, from multiple organ failure at the Emílio Ribas Hospital in
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As, for instance, the group of conservative Catholics gathered around the magazine
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in 1978. Though published in France by La Part du Feu, an offprint of the magazine
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John Milton, "Augusto de Campos e Bruno Tolentino: a Guerra das Traduções"
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Das Booty: Bruno Tolentino, candomblé, tráfico e poesia: uma história real
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Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida & Santuza Cambraia Naves, orgs.
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Banquete de Ossos: a poética modernista é subproduto de subpoetas
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failed to receive a copyright and the work is absent from the
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