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Excerpt from Lu�s De Cam�es
Although camo'es is the Portuguese poet best known to fame, it is doubtful if he has been widely read outside Portugal. Englishmen know, of course, that he was praised by Byron, and that he soothed an exile's grief with sonnets (i). To most lovers of literature he is a splendid name, but they perhaps suspect that his poetry is rather dull and that he is a second-rate Petrarca or Garci Lasso, who attempted an academic exercise in epic poetry out of its due time. If Virgil as an epic poet is so greatly inferior to Homer, what can we expect of an epic in the sixteenth cen tury, in full Renaissance? Curious as these views may seem to those who have read camo'es in the original, it must be admitted that there are a good many.
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