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What happens when a poet turns desire, wounded pride, and polite society into targets for laughter?
In Erotic, Burlesque, and Satirical Poems, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage brings his sharp tongue to bodies, lovers, pompous figures, and literary enemies. This collection gathers erotic verse, burlesque, and satire: poetry that speaks openly where polite verse looks away, and finds laughter in appetites it prefers to hide.
Bocage is known for tender sonnets, but here you meet the poet whose frankness shocks polite society. His poems pass from hand to hand before they can appear openly in print. Literary quarrels sharpen the attack, including his feud with José Agostinho de Macedo, a priest and writer who answers him in kind.
What you’ll discover
- Desire without polite disguises Meet lovers and bodily appetites in poems that trade coyness for wit and frankness.
- Solemn poetry turned upside down Discover burlesque that brings lofty subjects low and gives humble things a grand treatment.
- Rivals caught in rhyme Follow a sharp literary tongue as Bocage takes aim at fellow poets and fools.
- Laughter at the pompous Enjoy mockery that punctures dignity and makes self-important figures the butt of the joke.
- Beyond the tender sonnet Explore the bawdy, combative side of a Portuguese poet remembered for his sonnets.
Who will love it
This is for readers who enjoy satire aimed at priests, rivals and pretension, and who like the history of Portuguese poetry around 1800.
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- A banned volume gathers what polite editions omit
- Two narrative satires treat lust as crude farce
- A night scene and an Ovid imitation
- The epistle to Marilia attacks the fear of hell
- Olinda and Alzira teach love as nature's law
- The sonnets turn wit on friars, rivals and kings
- The beata of Evora shows what the satire targets
- A miscellany, doubtful authors and answers from rivals
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Poemas eróticos, burlescos y satíricos
by Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage · 1854
A Lisbon poet turns his wit on friars, rivals and hell itself, and writes love as a plain pleasure.
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What happens when a poet's private jokes, love poems and attacks on the Church are printed together in one volume? This book is the answer.
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A banned volume gathers what polite editions omit
The book opens with a short preface that explains why it exists. Readers of the new Lisbon edition, completed in 1853, wanted a complete set. They were sorry that works on anti-religious subjects had been left out.
The editor answers with a practical argument. Part of this material had already been printed. The rest had circulated in hand copies, and such copies grow more faulty each time they are made. He adds that the middle of the nineteenth century is far from the danger that once surrounded such publications.
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Bocage, Manuel Maria Barbosa du. Erotic, Burlesque, and Satirical Poems. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/erotic-burlesque-and-satirical-poems.
Bocage, M. M. B. du. (2026). Erotic, burlesque, and satirical poems. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/erotic-burlesque-and-satirical-poems (Original work published 1854)
Bocage, Manuel Maria Barbosa du. Erotic, Burlesque, and Satirical Poems. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/erotic-burlesque-and-satirical-poems.
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What is Erotic, Burlesque, and Satirical Poems by Bocage about?
It is a collection of poems left out of the 1853 Lisbon edition of Bocage. It includes satirical narratives, an epistle against hell, verse letters, sonnets, comic verses and an elegy, with editorial notes on their sources.
Did Bocage really write all the poems in this book?
Not certainly. The editor says the night scene and the Ovid imitation are attributed to Sebastiao Xavier Botelho, marks some sonnets as doubtful, and admits others may be by Pedro Jose Constancio.
Who are Olinda and Alzira?
They are two friends who exchange seven verse letters. Olinda is a young woman troubled by new feelings. Alzira is married to Alcino and advises her. Their letters argue for love as natural and mock religious fear.
The author
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage
1765–1805 · Portuguese poet
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805) was a Portuguese poet. He was born in Setúbal and died in Lisbon. He served in the Portuguese navy and spent time in India and Macau. He wrote lyric and satirical poetry. The first volume of his Rimas appeared in 1791.
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