Francisco Dias Gomes (1745 – 30 September 1795)[1] was a Portuguese poet and literary critic.
Francisco Dias Gomes was born in Lisbon,[2] the son of Fructuoso Dias, a local tradesman, and his wife Vivência Gomes.
[3] His work was little known to contemporary men of letters and his career was spent primarily writing poetry in elegiac meter and studying the progress of Portugal's language and literature.
[4] He died of an epidemic fever in 1795.
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