UMA REVITALIZAÇÃO DOS ESTUDOS SOBRE A ESCOLA BYRONIANA NO BRASIL E SOBRE O ESCRITOR ÁLVARES DE AZEVEDO

Abstract

This study is configured as an initial approach to an exhaustive work of a historiographical nature, with the objective of gathering biographical and literary information about the writer Álvares de Azevedo. To this end, it becomes necessary to bring to light certain information about the poet Lord Byron and his influence in Brazil, which enabled the creation of the Byronic School in the country, in which Álvares de Azevedo took part. In this manner, the work A Escola Byroniana no Brasil (1962), by Pires de Almeida, presents itself as a starting point for a review of the creation of this school and of how the profile of the poet Álvares de Azevedo was constructed. The article “A coroação da rainha dos mortos” (1982), by Vicente de Azevedo, was set in contrast for the undertaking of new studies and contemporary perspectives, in order to examine the school in Brazil in greater depth. It is further postulated that both Byron and Álvares de Azevedo call for a revitalization of studies and contemporary perspectives that may grant them their due importance within literary studies.