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Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the complex relation that Carlos Drummond de Andrade seems to have had with the main figures and principles of the first Brazilian Modernist moment. Such a discussion sheds new light on the poems which were included by the poet in the 1930 volume Alguma poesia that can now be read according to an inner aesthetic conflict Drummond was experiencing during those years. His correspondance with some of his contemporaries such as Mário de Andrade is very clear in this respect.

O artigo procura reflectir sobre a complexidade da relação que Carlos Drummond de Andrade manteve com o primeiro momento do Modernismo brasileiro, com os seus principais protagonistas e respectivos programas e objectivos. Trata-se de reler o processo de escrita dos poemas que integram o volume Alguma poesia, em 1930, à luz de uma conflitualidade interna ético-estética que só a correspondência trocada com alguns desses protagonistas, Mário de Andrade em particular, vem iluminar.