Antecipações e retrospectivas: A poesia portuguesa na segunda metade do século XX

Abstract

In view of the return to textualization in the 1960’s – a tendency that is also to be observed in the French and Spanish contexts – the poets’ reaction in the next few decades is often quite strong. The question to be asked is whether there is a fundamental difference between these two positions, which seem to give rise to apparently distinct poetics. Is there in the second half of the twentieth century a moment in which we might speak of a break? In this paper I try to show that, rather than producing a rupture, the emerging poetics of the 1960’s consolidates a tradition of modernity in its more radical aspect, whereas the next poetics prefers to realign with the most remote tradition of modernity, in Baudelaire’s sense, Even though we face two different kinds of dialogue with the tradition, in both cases, it seems, the tradition is retrieved in such a way that the notion of rupture is out of the question

Keywords

• Portuguese poetry
• modernity
• textuality
• Modernism