What is Antero de Quental?
[[File:Antero de Quental (ca. 1887).jpg|thumb|Antero de Quental]] '''Antero de Quental''' (1842-1891) - Portuguese thinker and poet, leader of generation of seventies.<ref name=AQ>{{Cite web |url=http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/filosofia/rep5.html |title=Antero de Quental (1842-1891) at Instituto Camões |access-date=2016-11-15 |archive-date=2016-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829220709/http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/filosofia/rep5.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> == Biography == Antero Tarquínio de Quental was born on 18 April 1842 in [[Ponta Delgada]] in the islands of [[Azores]].<ref name=EB>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antero-Tarquinio-de-Quental Antero de Quental at Encyclopaedia Britannica]</ref> He was a son of Fernando de Quental, a former soldier, and his wife Ana Guilhermina da Maia. He studied at the [[University of Coimbra]]<ref name=PV>{{Cite web |url=http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/antero.htm |title=Antero de Quental at Projecto Vercial |access-date=2016-11-15 |archive-date=2016-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001150912/http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/antero.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and soon became a leader of his fellow students. He protested against the shape of Portuguese poetry of the time. He shot himself on 11 september 1891 in his native town.<ref name=EB /> == Works == During his stay at the university he wrote ''Raios de Extincta Luz'' (''Rays of Vanishing Light'') and ''Primaveras Românticas'' (''Romantic Springtimes'').<ref name=EB /> Antero de Quental's most famous work however is ''Odes Modernas'', published in 1865. He wrote in the first place [[sonnet]]s.<ref name=EB /> They were translated into English in 1922 by Sylvanus Griswold Morley<ref name=EB /> as ''Sonnets and poems of Anthero de Quental''. He wrote essays, too, for example ''Bom Senso e Bom Gosto'' (''Good Sense and Good Taste'').<ref name=EB /> == References == <references/> == Bibliography == * [https://archive.org/details/sonnetspoemsofan00quen Sonnets