Abstract
This research aims at contributing for the studies of the poetry of Sousândrade (Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, 1832-1902) by way of an investigation of the historical and stylistic determinations concerning the narrative form and the poetic diction of the long poem Guesa, published in parts during the 1870s and 1880s. It proposes to examine the modes of relation and dependence between these t…