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Drummond was born in Itabira , a rural village in Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. His parents were farmers who owned their own land. He went to a school of Pharmacy in Belo Horizonte and became a pharmacist. He worked in government service for most of his life, eventually becoming director of history for the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Service of Brazil. Though his earliest poems are formal and satirical, Drummond quickly adopted the new forms of Brazilian modernism that were evolving in the 1920s , incited by the work of Mário De Andrade (to whom he was not related). He adopted a whitmanian free verse, mingling a speech fluent in elegance and truth about the surrounding, many times quotidian, world, with a fluidity of thought. It is as if Wordsworth was endowed with more modern, contorted and surrealistic devices and fancy. Drummond's best-known poem is his hymn to a working man, "José." It is a poem of desolation: :Key in hand, :you want to open the door - :there is no door. . . The work of Carlos Drummond is generally divided into several segments, which appear very markedly in each of his books. But this is somewhat misleading, since even in the midst of his ''everyday'' poems or his ''socialist,'' politicized poems, there appear creations which can be easily incorporated into his later ''metaphysical'' canon, and none of these ''styles'' is completely free of the others. There's surely much ''metaphysical'' content in even his most rancid political poems. The most prominent of these later metaphysical poems is ''A Máquina do Mundo'' (The Machine of the World). The poem deals with an anti-Faust referred in the first person, who receives the visit of the aforementioned Machine, which stands for all possible knowledge, and the sum of the answers for all the questions which afflict men; in highly dramatic and baroque versification the poem develops only for the anonymous subject to decline the offer of endless knowledge and proceed his gloomy path in the solitary road. It takes the renaissance alegory of the Machine of the World from Portugal's most esteemed poet, Luís de Camões, more precisely, from a canto at the end of his epic masterpiece ''Os Lusíadas.'' There are also hints from Dante and the form is adapted from T .S. Eliot's dantesque passage in "Little Gidding." It is considered by some to be one of the peaks of lyric poetry in the 20th Century, and has been voted by a distinct corpus of critics as the greatest Brazilian poem of all times. Drummond is a favorite of American poets, a number of whom, including Mark Strand and Lloyd Schwartz , have translated him. Later writers and critics have sometimes credited his relationship with Elizabeth Bishop , his first English Language translator, as influential for his American reception, but though she admired him Bishop claimed she barely knew him. In an interview with George Starbuck in 1977 , she said: :I didn't know him at all. He's supposed to be very shy. I'm supposed to be very shy. We've met once — on the sidewalk at night. We had just come out of the same restaurant, and he kissed my hand politely when we were introduced. {Link without Title} BIBLIOGRAPHY (ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS)
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