Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Evolution of Brazil Compared With That of Spanish and Anglo-Saxon America
Quite appropriately Dr. Lima's first historical production dealt with his native city. The Historical Development of Pernambuco1 is a scholarly and entertaining work in which the author has traced in broad outline the social and political development of one of the most interest ing cities of South America. Especially noteworthy is the account of the Dutch occupation in the sixteenth century. With the sure and deft touch of a literary artist he has drawn the portrait of the real hero of this epic adventure, the genial and tolerant Count Maurice of nassau-siegen, sent out by the Dutch West India Company to govern their American pos sessions. With the same graphic word-painting he has sketched the sub sequent events which have inseparably coupled Pernambuco with the national evolution of Brazil.
In 1906 appeared a work which at once gained the author a high place among contemporary literary critics. Some Aspects of Colonial Brazilian Literature, is a brilliant analysis of the leading tendencies of Brazilian letters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While Dr. Lima has necessarily followed in the trail blazed by that clean of literary criticism, Silvio Romero, whose History of Brazilian Literature has already become a classic, Dr. Lima's book reveals much originality and abounds in suggestive and in some cases new points of view. In this respect the section devoted to the school of poetry which ?ourished in the Captaincy of Minas Geraes during the eighteenth century should be singled out for special mention.
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