page_title: Ultra-Romanticism
section_title: In Brazil
hierarchical_section_title: Ultra-Romanticism / Main adepts / In Brazil
caption_attribution_description: Português: O escritor brasileiro Álvares de Azevedo (falecido em 1852).
context_page_description: Ultra-Romanticism was a Portuguese literary movement that took place during the second half of the 19th century and later arrived in Brazil. Aesthetically similar to the German- and British-originated Dark Romanticism, it was typified by a tendency to exaggerate the norms and ideals of Romanticism, namely the value of subjectivity, individualism, amorous idealism, nature and the medieval world. The Ultra-Romantics generated literary works of highly contendable quality, some of them being considered as "romance of knife and earthenware bowl", given the succession of bloody crimes that they invariably described, which realists fiercely denounced.
  In Portugal, the first Ultra-Romantic piece ever written was the poem "O noivado do sepulcro" by António Augusto Soares de Passos, while in Brazil the first major Ultra-Romantic works were the books Lira dos Vinte Anos and Noite na Taverna by Álvares de Azevedo.
  In Brazil, it is called "the second phase of the Brazilian Romanticism", being preceded by the "Indianism" and succeeded by the "Condorism".
context_section_description: Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852)
  Junqueira Freire (1832–1855)
  Fagundes Varela (1841–1875)
  Casimiro de Abreu (1839–1860)
  Aureliano Lessa (1828–1861)
  José Bonifácio the Younger (1827–1886; in only a few poems, however)
  Pedro de Calasans (1837–1874)
  Laurindo Rabelo (1826–1864)
  João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa (1827–1915)
caption: Álvares de Azevedo is one of the most well-known Ultra-Romantic Brazilian poets, winning the epithet of "the Brazilian Lord Byron"
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