Eugénio de Castro
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, Brazil
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, see Eugênio de Castro
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Eugénio de Castro with the e accented is also a Portuguese writerEugênio de Castro is a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil...


Eugénio de Castro e Almeida (March 4, 1869 in Coimbra
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, Portugal
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 – August 17, 1944) was a Portuguese
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 writer
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 and a poet
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. He was a professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra and attended Escola Normal Superior in the same university.

His contribution in poetry was divided in two sections, the first one was symbolic and that the author used new rhymes, metric (Alexandrine verses) and more richer vocabulary. The author also written about Ancient classics.
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