Espumas Flutuantes is a 1870

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 poetry book by Brazil

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ian Romantic

Romanticism

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 poet Castro Alves

Castro Alves

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his Abolitionist and Republican poems...

. It would be the only work Alves would publish during his lifetime, because of his premature death from tuberculosis

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 one year later. It is one of his most famous poetry books; the other one is Os Escravos, published in 1883

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. Espumas Flutuantes was dedicated to Castro Alves' family, as seen in the book's "Dedicatory".

It has 53 poems, whose themes are mostly unrequited love

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 and ode

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s, such as "Ode ao dous de julho" and "O livro e a América".