Os gêneros poéticos no Almocreve de Petas, de José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa

Abstract

This paper aims to realize the study of the poetical texts present in the Portuguese journal Almocreve de Petas, from José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa, that circulated in Lisbon between the final years of 18th century, analyzing how satire was set in this poetry and what were its objectives. The main authors who provided us theory supports were Barbosa (2007), Eagleton (2003), and Pécora (2001). Several poetic genres were found in our reading such as sonnets and décimas, mostly being credited to an author called Moço do Poeta. We concluded that the satire present in the journal was a method of reprehending the readers’ bad behaviors, aiming to cease everything that was prejudicial to good social connivance.