A João de Deus.

Coimbra, F. França Amado; sold for the benefit of the Jardim-Escola João de Deus, 1911.. FIRST EDITION. 4°, unbound. Printed in red and black. Halftone reproduction of a self-portrait by João de Deus on p. [2]. Slight spotting. (2 ll.). *** FIRST EDITION, and the only separate one, of a sonnet composed for the inauguration of the Jardim-Escola João de Deus in Coimbra, and sold for its benefit. Deus (1830-1896), "the most natural Portuguese poet of the nineteenth century" (Bell, Portuguese Literature p. 329), also devised a special method for teaching children to read. This method was perfected and popularized by Deus's son, João de Deus Ramos, who founded the first of many highly-regarded jardins-escolas at Coimbra in 1911.Afonso Lopes Vieira (1878-1946) was Portugal's best traditional poet of the twentieth century. In 1916 he resigned his post as Redactor da Câmara dos Deputados in Lisbon in order to dedicate himself to reading and to poetry. His home, São Pedro de Moel, became a haven for artists, musicians and writers. He also travelled extensively in Europe and North Africa, and reminiscences of these travels often appear in his works.Lopes Vieira's earliest published works were written as a student at Coimbra, 1897-1900, e.g. Para quê?, 1897, and Náufrago, 1898. From this melancholy phase he passed into a nationalistic one, in which he publicized early Portuguese literature, aiming to "reaportuguesar Portugal tornando-o europeau." During this period he helped prepare an edition of Camões (1928) and edited Montemayor's Diana, the Amadis, and Rodrigues Lobo. His Portuguese translation of the Poema do Cid was published in the periodical Lusitânia, of which Lopes Vieira served as secretary. He also wrote essays and fiction, as well as works for children, e.g. Animais nossos amigos, 1911 and Canto infantil, 1912.*** Not in Innocêncio. Santos, Exposição bibliográfica de Afonso Lopes Vieira, p. 22. On Afonso Lopes Vieira see Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (17th ed., 2001), p. 961; Bell, Portuguese Literature, p. 337: "There is a certain strength as well as a subtle music about his verse which is of good promise for the future." Also Maria Amélia Gomes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 501–2; Fernando Guimarães in Biblos, V, 844–6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 214–6. Porbase locates two copies: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, and Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. Jisc repeats British Library only. NUC: ICN.