Espumas Flutuantes

Espumas Flutuantes
Cover of the first edition
AuthorCastro Alves
LanguagePortuguese language
GenrePoetry
PublisherTipografia de Camilo de Lellis Masson & C.A.
Publication date
1870
Media typeHardcover

Espumas Flutuantes (Floating Foam) is an 1870 book of poems by Brazilian Romantic poet Castro Alves. It was the only work Alves published in his lifetime, because of his premature death from tuberculosis one year later. It is one of his most famous books, the other one being Os Escravos, published in 1883. Espumas Flutuantes was dedicated to Castro Alves' family, as seen in the book's "dedicatory". It has 53 poems, whose themes are mostly unrequited love, and odes such as "Ode ao dous de julho" and "O livro e a América".[1]

  1. ^ Cleonice Ferreira de Sousa (2020). "Espumas Flutuantes de além mar: Castro Alves e Victor Hugo o porquê da análise comparativa". Revista da Anpoll. 51 (3): 96–106. doi:10.18309/ANP.V51I3.1431. ISSN 1982-7830. Wikidata Q107399751.