Camonian

comparative more Camonian · superlative most Camonian

1. Of or relating to Luís de Camões.

   The Camonian figure and its discursive circulation have been elaborated within an evolving tradition, which in modernity is characterized by a progressive self-consciousness of nationhood.

   2001, Terry Cochran, Twilight of the Literary: Figures of Thought in the Age of Print, Harvard University Press, page 107

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   This is emphatically true; and hence the Portuguese Epic has been universally recognised as wholesome and tonic reading, in fact, the very reverse of a certain “poisonous honey”; and the general directness of the Camonian style, and the straightforwardness with which the Great Portuguese calls a spade (when he must name it) a spade, is a pleasant contrast to that over-development, or rather abuse of Shelleyism, which in this stage of English versification suggests the “tale full of sound and fury,” and of mighty little meaning, though the words seem very strong.

   1881, Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads, pages 725–726

   Brazil's strong participation in the Camoens Celebration reflected the poet's influence on the nineteenth-century letters of that South American nation. Brazilian poets no longer imitated him, having developed along their own national lines, but Brazil's Emperor Dom Pedro II (1840-1889) was a Camonian enthusiast.

   1963, William Freitas, Camoens and His Epic, page 190