In 1862 he left Coimbra for Beja, where he was appointed editor of O Bejense, the chief newspaper in the province of Alentejo, and four years later he edited the Folha do Sul.
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The four theatrical pieces -- Amemos o nosso próximo, Ser apresentado, Ensaio de Casamento, and A viúva inconsolável -- are prose translations from Méry, cleverly done, but not worth the doing.
Guerra Junqueiro (1850–1923) and João de Deus (1830–1896) should also be considered in this period.
João Gilberto | João Pessoa | João Bosco | Maria João | Deus Ex | João Roque | Maria Joao | João Goulart | João Cabral de Melo Neto | São João River | São João de Meriti | João Vieira Pinto | João Sousa | Joao Roque | João Pinto | João Magueijo | João Havelange | João Botelho | Deus Caritas Est | Maria João Rodrigues | João Saldanha | João Reis | João Paulo de Oliveira | João N'Tyamba | João Maria Ferreira do Amaral II | João Gordo | João Gonçalves Filho | João de Deus | João de Castro | João Batista Vilanova Artigas |
His first books, Parnaso de Além-Túmulo, containing 256 poems attributed to deceased poets, among them, the two Portuguese João de Deus, Antero de Quental and Guerra Junqueiro and the Brazilians Olavo Bilac, Cruz e Sousa e Augusto dos Anjos, was published for the first time in 1932; the book caused strong admiration and polemic among the literature circle from that time.