STEPHEN PARKINSON is an Honorary Research Fellow in Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK. Juliet Perkins is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. STEPHEN PARKINSON is an Honorary Research Fellow in Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction - Stephen ParkinsonIntroduction - Thomas F Earle and Cláudia Pazos AlonsoEight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview - Helder MacedoThe Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric - Rip Cohen and Stephen ParkinsonFernao Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages - Stephen ParkinsonPortuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira - Juliet Perkins and Thomas F EarleThe Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion - Clive WillisLyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century - Thomas F EarleThe Seventeenth Century - Luís GomesThe Eighteenth Century - Vanda AnastacioAlmeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature - Helena BuescuThe Transition from Romanticism to Realism - David FrierEça de Queirós: A European Writer - Teresa Pinto CoelhoFernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation - Mariana Gray de CastroNarrative and Drama during the Dictatorship - Phillip RothwellWomen Writers up to 1974 - Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos AlonsoWriting after the Dictatorship - Mark Sabine and Claire WilliamsPortuguese Literature in English Translation - Pat Odber

[E]specially appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students seeking a basic secondary source on Portuguese literature in overview courses or for those studying on their own [...] a welcome and much-needed reference source that unassumingly and yet effectively introduces the canon to the nonspecialist reader.

STEPHEN PARKINSON is an Honorary Research Fellow in Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK. Juliet Perkins is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. STEPHEN PARKINSON is an Honorary Research Fellow in Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction - Stephen ParkinsonIntroduction - Thomas F Earle and Cláudia Pazos AlonsoEight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview - Helder MacedoThe Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric - Rip Cohen and Stephen ParkinsonFernao Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages - Stephen ParkinsonPortuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira - Juliet Perkins and Thomas F EarleThe Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion - Clive WillisLyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century - Thomas F EarleThe Seventeenth Century - Luís GomesThe Eighteenth Century - Vanda AnastacioAlmeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature - Helena BuescuThe Transition from Romanticism to Realism - David FrierEça de Queirós: A European Writer - Teresa Pinto CoelhoFernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation - Mariana Gray de CastroNarrative and Drama during the Dictatorship - Phillip RothwellWomen Writers up to 1974 - Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos AlonsoWriting after the Dictatorship - Mark Sabine and Claire WilliamsPortuguese Literature in English Translation - Pat Odber

[E]specially appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students seeking a basic secondary source on Portuguese literature in overview courses or for those studying on their own [...] a welcome and much-needed reference source that unassumingly and yet effectively introduces the canon to the nonspecialist reader.

STEPHEN PARKINSON is an Honorary Research Fellow in Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK. Juliet Perkins is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. STEPHEN PARKINSON is an Honorary Research Fellow in Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, UK.

• Introduction - Stephen ParkinsonIntroduction - Thomas F Earle and Cláudia Pazos AlonsoEight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview - Helder MacedoThe Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric - Rip Cohen and Stephen ParkinsonFernao Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages - Stephen ParkinsonPortuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira - Juliet Perkins and Thomas F EarleThe Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion - Clive WillisLyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century - Thomas F EarleThe Seventeenth Century - Luís GomesThe Eighteenth Century - Vanda AnastacioAlmeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature - Helena BuescuThe Transition from Romanticism to Realism - David FrierEça de Queirós: A European Writer - Teresa Pinto CoelhoFernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation - Mariana Gray de CastroNarrative and Drama during the Dictatorship - Phillip RothwellWomen Writers up to 1974 - Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos AlonsoWriting after the Dictatorship - Mark Sabine and Claire WilliamsPortuguese Literature in English Translation - Pat Odber

[E]specially appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students seeking a basic secondary source on Portuguese literature in overview courses or for those studying on their own [...] a welcome and much-needed reference source that unassumingly and yet effectively introduces the canon to the nonspecialist reader.