"Insipidas mexerufadas": foi com palavras como estas que durante seculos se apreciaram as poesias dos contemporaneos de Cam?es. Neste contexto historico incomum e extremo, a antologia Poetas que n?o eram Cam?es torna-se num manifesto pela diferenca, porque aqueles contemporaneos pensavam, sentiam e escreviam de maneiras diferentes de Cam?es. Mas aqueles autores tambem escreveram belos poemas de amor, versos de exaltac?o heroica e critica politica, em generos e formas - como o soneto, a canc?o, a ode e a epopeia - privilegiados por Cam?es. Ler os oito poetas em conjunto, num unico livro, possui a vantagem inestimavel de oferecer uma perspetiva privilegiada sobre o brilhantismo duma gerac?o. "Insipid pigswill": it was with words like these that the poems of Cam?es's contemporaries were appreciated for centuries. In this unusual and extreme historical context, Poets Who Weren't Cam?es becomes not only a poetic anthology but also a kind of manifesto, a manifesto for difference, since those contemporaries thought, felt and wrote in different ways from Cam?es. But those authors also wrote beautiful poems of love, verses of heroic exaltation and political criticism, in genres and forms - sonnets, hymns, odes, and epics - privileged by Cam?es. Reading these eight poets together in a single volume has the inestimable advantage of throwing into sharp perspective what a brilliant generation this was.
