Alfredo Ribeiro dos Santos - História Literária do Porto

This work constitutes the most comprehensive survey published to date of the city's cultural movements and literary movements, particularly over the last two centuries.

From the Literary Gazette to Ultra-Romanticism, from A Águia to the avant-garde publications of the 1990s, the author vividly presents, through these pages, a historical, referential, and content framework (documented in synopses and bio-bibliographical notes of the main contributors) that allows us to assess the cultural environments, the lines of thought translated into doctrinal and civic action, the literary nuances, and artistic singularities that propelled Porto to a prominent place in Portuguese life.

The importance of these publications in Porto's educated and literate circles—but whose repercussions and influence also permeated all of Portuguese social, learned, and literary life—is thus grounded in their sources.

Alfredo Ribeiro dos Santos' contribution, in the wake of his other previous works, is fundamental for anyone seeking to understand the aesthetic environment, the currents of thought, the literary, artistic and cultural trajectory of our country, in the transition of the last two centuries.