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          Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, – August 17, ) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all..

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        2. Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, – August 17, ) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all.
        3. Nearly unanimously considered Brazil's greatest poet, he left a vast poetical oeuvre of considerable thematic and stylistic variety, demonstrating longevity.
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          5. Andrade, Carlos Drummond de (1902–1987)

          Carlos Drummond de Andrade (b. 31 October 1902; d. 17 August 1987), considered Brazil's most important twentieth-century poet. Drummond (or "The Master," as he is best known) was an active poet and writer through several literary generations—from modernism through concretism—and influenced many contemporary Brazilian poets.

          Born in Minas Gerais and intimately associated with that state in his poetry, Drummond spent most of his life in Rio de Janeiro where, like many other Brazilian writers, he earned his living as a bureaucrat—in the education ministry—and a journalist.

          He contributed poetry to major literary reviews and translated many of the classic writers of French and Spanish literature. He also wrote hundreds of crônicas (journalistic sketches) about daily life that reveal a genuine, kind soul.

          Drummond was not an original member of the group that "founded" Brazilian modernism in São Paulo in 1922.

          Nevertheless, under their infl