BOOK III.
FROM THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Preliminary observations 328
CHAP. I.
GENERAL HISTORY OF POETICAL AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION IN PORTUGAL DURING THIS PERIOD.
Total decay of Portuguese literature towards the end of the seventeenth century 329
Establishment of the Portuguese academy in 1714 331
Administration of the Marquis of Pombal 333
Revived spirit of literature--utility of the Portuguese academy of sciences 334
CHAP. II.
HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY DURING THIS PERIOD.
The Conde da Ericeyra 336
General character of his works 338
His Henriqueida 340
Continuance of corrupt taste in Portuguese poetry--Barros Pereira--Antonio de Lima 347
The Portuguese drama in the first half of the eighteenth century 350
Spurious dramas called operas ibid
RESUMPTION OF AN IMPROVED STYLE IN PORTUGUESE POETRY.
Manoel da Costa 357
His successful imitation of Cantatas in the style of Metastasio 362
Progress of Portuguese poetry in the latter part of the eighteenth century 364
Translations of latin classics into the Portuguese language 365
Titles of some of the poems produced in this period 366
Garçaõ--his imitation of Horace’s odes 367
His dramas in the style of Terence 372
The Abbot Paulino 375
Dona Catharina de Sousa--Her tragedy of Osmia 377
Failure of Osmia on the stage--prevalence of dramatic imitations and translations 383
Recent Portuguese poets--in particular Tolentino da Almeida 384
Araujo de Azavedo--his translations of English poems 386
CHAP. III.
HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE ELOQUENCE, CRITICISM AND RHETORIC, DURING THIS PERIOD.
Further decline of Portuguese eloquence 387
New cultivation of eloquence--Classical prose authors still wanting in modern Portuguese literature 390
Romantic prose--translations 391
Portuguese criticism of the eighteenth century ibid
Ericeyra’s introduction to his Henriqueida 392
Garçaõ’s lectures 395
Philological and critical treatises of the Academicians--Joaquim de Foyos--Francisco Dias--Antonio das Naves, &c. 398
Compendium of rhetoric by Antonio Teixeira de Magalhaens 402
CONCLUSION.
Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish literature 403
HISTORY
OF
_PORTUGUESE LITERATURE_.