Abstract
Augusto dos Anjos’ poetry usually slides from the usual categorizations. Despite the hegemonic criticism the Brazilian literature of the early twentieth century receives, being described as old-fashioned, our gaze allocates Augusto dos Anjos in modernity itself. In the present work we seek to understand Augusto dos Anjos’ poetic project, giving a reading of one of his poems, “A meretriz”, in the light of the aesthetic concept of modernity by Charles Baudelaire, consolidated in one of his emblematic figures — the courtesan —, and by the perspective of the concept of allegory by Walter Benjamin.
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