Recepção da Obra de Milton em Portugal: – Algumas Achegas (I)

Abstract

The present article attempts to make four points regarding the reception of the work of John Milton in Portuguese literary culture: (a) as a matter of introduction, it highlights the range of critical issues involved in Portuguese editions / translations of Milton, and stresses the relevance of his work in the conspectus of Anglo-Portuguese literary connections; (b) it surveys a number of references made by José Agostinho de Macedo to Milton and other British authors; (c) it examines a review of António José de Lima Leitão’s 1840 translation of Paradise Lost published in the Lisbon magazine O Ramalhete by Francisco António Martins Bastos; (d) it poses a question regarding the possible catholicization of Milton’s work in its Portuguese reception.