José Simões Dias (1844 in Benfeita,

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– 3 March 1899 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese

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and

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, as well as

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and

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. His poetry is generally affiliated with the later Romantic tradition, sometimes termed Ultra-Romanticism, although some of his poems, popular in tone, can be seen to betray an affinity for the Realist aesthetics that was then beginning to blossom in Portuguese letters. As a

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to the

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under the

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of Luís I, he authored the bill that would transform the birthday of Camões (June 10) into

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, an important national holiday. His literary collaboration can be found in the magazine Popular Illustration (1884).

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