Recepção da obra de Milton em Portugal : algumas achegas (I)

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2023-10

Authors

Silva, Jorge Bastos da (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses = Journal of Anglo-Portuguese Studies

Vol. 32

Pages: 55-71

ISSN: 0871-6820

Publisher: CETAPS - Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies

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Abstract (EN): The present article attempts to make four points regarding the reception of the work of John Milton in Portuguese literary culture: (a) as a matter of introduction, it highlights the range of critical issues involved in Portuguese editions / translations of Milton, and stresses the relevance of his work in the conspectus of Anglo-Portuguese literary connections; (b) it surveys a number of references made by José Agostinho de Macedo to Milton and other British authors; (c) it examines a review of António José de Lima Leitão’s 1840 trans-lation of Paradise Lost published in the Lisbon magazine O Ramalheteby Francisco António Martins Bastos; (d) it poses a question regard-ing the possible catholicization of Milton’s work in its Portuguese reception

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific