Os Lusíadas | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 34 pages of analysis & critique of Os Lusíadas.

Os Lusíadas | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 34 pages of analysis & critique of Os Lusíadas.
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SOURCE: “Christened Classicism in Paradise Lost and The Lusiads,” in Comparative Literature, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall, 1972, pp. 338-56.

In the following essay, Sims considers parallels in the supernatural machinery of The Lusiads and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Milton may well have known the Portuguese epic Os Lusíadas or Sir Richard Fanshawe's Englishing of it or both. Although this is a tentative declaration of faith that cannot at present be indisputably proved, the faith is not a blind one. Parallels between specific aspects of Luis de Camoëns's and Milton's supernatural machinery as well as between the theoretical assumptions which seem to have motivated both poets' use of that machinery are, I think, more than coincidental. But before consideration of such parallels I wish to give, in anticipation, “an answer to every man that asketh a reason” of the faith that Milton knew Camoëns's poem.

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