PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Wilton José Marques TI - Machado de Assis &amp; Gonçalves Dias: <em>Encontros e diálogos</em> AID - 10.1353/lbr.2006.0034 DP - 2006 Jun 01 TA - Luso-Brazilian Review PG - 51--64 VI - 43 IP - 1 4099 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/51.short 4100 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/43/1/51.full SO - Luso-Braz Rev2006 Jun 01; 43 AB - The aim of this article is to reveal the existence of a dialogue between the romantic poetry of Gonçalves Dias, notably in his indianist poetry and the book Americanas (1875), by Machado de Assis. The article raises some questions about Machado’s possible reasons for revisiting the indianist theme and shows Machado’s admiration for Gonçalves Dias as evidenced in the poem “A Gonçalves Dias.”