Augusto Casimiro (1889–1967) was a Portuguese poet and journalist. He served in the First World War, and his wartime experience deeply shaped his writing, lending his poetry and prose a reflective quality centered on war, human nature, and his homeland. His representative work, A tentação do Mar (The Temptation of the Sea), takes the sea as its central image, continuing the Portuguese literary tradition of looking toward the ocean; its language is concise and lyrical, expressing a longing for distant places and the unknown. Public information about his life and work is limited, and only one of his works is currently held in the collection. Scholarly and reader interest in him tends to focus on this poetry collection and on his writing against the backdrop of the First World War.
