Guia de Ouro Preto and the Bandeira’s poems of Ouro Preto

Abstract

The Manuel Bandeira’s book Guia de Ouro Preto has as predecessors Guia de Recife and Guia de Olinda by Gilberto Freyre. However, the poet performed as a regional chronicler, whose text offers itself like a pendulum that swings between the geographical description and historical circumstance, destabilizing the literary historiography and his own poetic work, not so spontaneous or accidental as it was wished. That work will be confronted with other two poems, whose theme is focused in that same town, namely, “Ouro Preto” and “Minha gente, salvemos OuroPreto”.