The critical writings that recovered past masters of Brazilian poetry from the Baroque, Romanticism, and Modernism will be examined here. Among Campos’s essays analyzed here will be: O sequestro do barroco na formação da literatura brasileira: O caso Gregrório de Mattos, on the Baroque poet Gregório de Mattos; Re/visão de Sousândrade, on the late Romantic poet, Joaquim de Sousândrade; and the introductions Campos wrote to Oswald de Andrade’s Obras completas.