The Joaquim Cardozo: literary critic

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss how the literary criticism of the author from Pernambuco Joaquim Cardozo formulates a repertoire of reflections on the literature of his time, and how such reflections are significant for a more incisive understanding of his unique poetic work. For this, it is proposed here to bring some moments of this critical thinking that has developed in the various phases of the author’s life, which will be discussed in a historical perspective, in order to analyze the perspectives that were developed and how this cut points to a vision of his literary production and his contemporaries.