Abstract:
Gonçalves Dias published in 1857 four cantos of the epic poem Os Timbiras. José de Alencar planned Os filhos do Tupã, an epic in twelve parts, which remains unpublished until his death. Although unfinished, the initiatives of the two main personalities of Brazilian Romanticism reveal the possibilities of an American poetry with epic inclination in the context of the national literature and the paradigms of the Indianism of that time.
Keywords:
Gonçalves Dias; Os Timbiras; José de Alencar; Os filhos do Tupã; epic