This thesis is a collection of poetry written between 1970 and 1975. The quality of the poems is admittedly uneven, but the inclusion of earlier, weaker poems may indicate a progression in the areas of flexibility, control of material, and strength of poetic voice. The poems are arranged into five sections, entitled "Love," "Rabbits," Poetry about Poetry," "Religion and Ancestors," and "Henry. Poems collected here are intended to demonstrate that experimentation with various forms contributes to an increased ability to control poetic material and technique. By confining a poem to particular forms, one is forced to be more creative, imaginative, and exact. Both control and flexibility are important in contemporary poetry, and my hope is that the following poems demonstrate a balance of those qualities.

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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo examinar alguns poemas que compõem a obra do escritor carioca Paulo Henriques Britto, a fim de que identifiquemos características que constituem sua poética. As análises irão recair sobre temáticas mais saliente de sua obra, como a questão do fazer poético, e as possibilidades de constituição de uma subjetividade. Acreditamos que observar cuidadosamente essa obsessão do autor por determinados temas nos ajudará a compreender características que constituem a lírica sua lírica. / The present dissertation aims at examining some poems that compose the work of the writer Paulo Henriques Britto, in order to identify characteristics that constitute his poetics. The analyzes will fall on the most salient themes of his work, such as the question of making poetic, and the possibilities of constitution of a subjectivity. We believe that carefully observing this author\'s obsession with certain themes will help us to understand the characteristics that constitute his lyric.

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo examinar alguns poemas que compõem a obra do escritor carioca Paulo Henriques Britto, a fim de que identifiquemos características que constituem sua poética. As análises irão recair sobre temáticas mais saliente de sua obra, como a questão do fazer poético, e as possibilidades de constituição de uma subjetividade. Acreditamos que observar cuidadosamente essa obsessão do autor por determinados temas nos ajudará a compreender características que constituem a lírica sua lírica. / The present dissertation aims at examining some poems that compose the work of the writer Paulo Henriques Britto, in order to identify characteristics that constitute his poetics. The analyzes will fall on the most salient themes of his work, such as the question of making poetic, and the possibilities of constitution of a subjectivity. We believe that carefully observing this author\'s obsession with certain themes will help us to understand the characteristics that constitute his lyric.

Bien qu’il ait inspiré des contemporains plus célèbres, tels François Rabelais et Clément Marot, et fréquenté des humanistes de premier plan, bien qu’il soit l’auteur d’une forme de tragédie latine inédite et maintes fois rééditée, et d’une chronique du règne de Louis XII connue des historiens, le poète néo-latin Nicolas Barthélemy de Loches est resté parfaitement méconnu. Il est ainsi nécessaire de rassembler, corriger et compléter les données dont on peut disposer sur ce personnage et ses oeuvres, mais aussi de reconstituer le cadre social, littéraire et historique dans lequel il a vécu et composé, afin de réévaluer la diversité et la richesse poétique de ses oeuvres. Ces données suffisent à montrer que les écrits de Barthélemy ne sont pas ceux d’un moine cloîtré, mais bien plutôt ceux d’un véritable humaniste engagé dans les réformes de son temps, qu’elles soient pédagogiques, monastiques ou évangéliques. L’édition d’un des recueils poétiques de Barthélemy les plus représentatifs de sa production littéraire (le recueil varié paru à Paris en 1520) vient nourrir et confirmer cette lecture. / Although he inspired famous contemporaries like François Rabelais or Clément Marot, and spent time with leading humanists, although he wrote a new Latin tragedy form many times reprinted and a chronicle about the reign of Louis XII familiar to historians, very little is known about the Neo-Latin poet Nicolas Barthélemy de Loches. Collecting, correcting and completing existing data about the man and his writings is necessary, as well as the reconstruction of the social, literary and historical environment in which he lived and wrote, in order to reevaluate the poetic diversity and richness of his work. Such data are enough to show that Barthélemy’s works were not written by a cloistered monk, but rather by a true humanist involved in the pedagogical, monastic and evangelical reforms of his time. The edition of one of the most representative poetic collections written by Barthélemy (a varied collection printed in 1520 in Paris) supports and confirms this interpretation.