Talk:Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

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This article makes him sound so serious - it kind of turns him into everything he wasn't. Would you guess from this that he wrote seriously funny obscene poetry and stood against all the conventions and falseness of his period? That he was the nearest Portuguese equivalent of William Blake? Or that little boys would still be telling jokes about him nearly 200 years after he died?

"Pious hand please carve my epitaph,

Here sleeps Bocage, the whoremaster, He had an easy life, even miraculous: He eat, he drank, he fucked, and all for free" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marinheiro (talk • contribs) 13:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

OK, realised why this is such a bad article: it's taken from a 1911 article, at a time when most of Bocage's work could still not be publicly acknowledged. I added a further note about this at the end of the article, but the only references I have are in portuguese and I don't know if I should quote those in an english language article.

http://atelier.hannover2000.mct.pt/~pr349/ is a much better source than the old Britannica article. Marinheiro 14:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)