Brazilian Literature

hrough XVIIth century), the Period of Development (XVIIIth century), the Period of Reform (XlXth century) ; the talented De Carvalho accepts Romero's first period, from 1500 to 1750, calling it that of Portuguese dominance, inserts a Transition period from 1750 to the date of the triumph of French Romanticism in 1830, and labels the subsequent phase the Autonomous epoch. This is better than Wolf's five divisions (1863) and the no less than sixteen suggested by the restless Romero in the resume that he wrote in 1900 for the Livro do Centenario. I am inclined, on the whole, to favour the division suggested by Romero in his Historia da Litteratura Bra- sileira (1902) 24 / Period of Formation: 1500-1750 f Antonomous Development: 1750-1830Romantic Transformation: 1830-1870 23 In their Compendio de Historia da Literatura Brasileira (1909, Rio, 2a ediijao refundida) Sylvio Romero and Joao Ribeiro point out the existence of a certain Germanism from 1870 to 1889, due chiefly to the constant labours of Tobias Barreto. Italian influence is very strong in law, and that of the United States in political organization. As will be seen in a later chapter, the United States had, through Cooper, a share in the "Indianism" of the Brazilian Romanticists. Our Longfellow, Hawthorne, Whitman and Poe are well known, the latter pair through French rather than the original channels. 24 Rio. Second edition, Revised. Critical, Naturalist Reaction, followed by Parnassians, Symb...