Character and analysis of the Lusiad 150 The other poetic works of Camoens 184 His sonnets 187 His canções 189 His odes 190 His elegies 192 His estancias 195 His eclogues 196 His poems in redondilhas, &c. 197 His dramas 200 Classical school of Saa de Miranda and Antonio Ferreira 208 Andrade Caminha 209 Bernardes 217 Cortereal 223 Other Portuguese poets of the sixteenth century--Ferreira de Vasconcellos--Rodriguez de Castro--Lobo de Soropita, &c. 225 Rodriguez Lobo 226 His Court in the Country 228 His pastoral romances 235 His miscellaneous poems 245 Imitation of the Spanish romances in Portugal 250 State of Portuguese eloquence in the sixteenth century 252 Romances and novels 253 Sà Sotomayor 254 Pires de Rebello 256 Progress of the historical art 258 Joaõ de Barros 260 Lopez de Castanheda--Damiaõ de Góes--Affonso d’Alboquerque 266 Bernardo de Brito 268 CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH. Decay of the ancient national energy in Portuguese literature 273 Portuguese sonnets of the seventeenth century 276 Faria e Sousa 277 His sonnets 279 His treatises on poetry 283 His eclogues and his theory respecting that species of composition 286 His commentary on the works of Camoens 288 Thomas de Noronha--comic sonnet poetry 290 Barbosa Bacellar 292