Catulo da Paixão Cearense

Catulo da Paixão Cearense (8 October 1863 – 10 May 1946), the Poeta do Sertão (Poet of the Sertão) was a Brazilian poet, theatre director, musician, and composer. He is considered one of the biggest composers in the history of Brazilian popular music during the 19th and 20th centuries. He was held in high esteem by various intellectuals for the beauty of his writings.

According to musicologist Zuza Homem de Mello, Catulo gained his nickname as the poet of the sertão, saying that he "introduced in his poetry the language inherited from what he had heard in his adolescence in the Northeast". In critic Murilo Araújo's understanding, "none of our poets had been so on point as to being inspired by the land".

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