Machado de Assis (1839-1908), throughout his career, published four books of poetry: Crisálidas (1864), Falenas (1870), Americanas (1875) and Poesias completas (1901). This last book brings a selection of some poems from ...

On the epigraphs that accompany some poems of Crisálidas (1864), by Machado de Assis, there is the parade of authors such as Dante, Camões Heine and Homer. The same happens in the following books of poems, Falenas (1870) ...