"I can read Camoes, etc., pretty well now, and he—his sonnets—are superb—as good as any in English, certainly."
— Luís de Camões

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Elizabeth Bishop, letter to Robert Lowell (28 July 1953), in Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008), ed. Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, p. 142