Francisco Dias Gomes

Francisco Dias Gomes (1745 – 30 September 1795) was a Portuguese poet and literary critic.

Biography Francisco Dias Gomes was born in Lisbon, the son of Fructuoso Dias, a local tradesman, and his wife Vivência Gomes. 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.

He died of an epidemic fever in 1795.