Auta de Souza (12 September 1876 — 7 February 1901) was a Brazilian poet.^[1] She wrote Romantic poems, with some Symbolistic influence.

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Auta de Souza
Born	(1876-09-12)12 September 1876 Macaíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Died	7 February 1901(1901-02-07) (aged 24) Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Occupation	Poet
Literary movement	Romanticism, Symbolism
Notable works	Horto

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Souza published only one book in her lifetime, Horto. Folklorist Luís da Câmara Cascudo deemed her as "the greatest mystical poet in Brazil".^[2]

Souza was born in Macaíba, daughter of Elói Castriciano de Souza and Henriqueta Leopoldina Rodrigues.

She became an orphan when she was three, with her mother's death by tuberculosis; her father died of the same disease the next year. Souza was then raised by her maternal grandmother^[1] in Recife, where she took particular classes. When she was eleven, she was enrolled at the Colégio São Vicente de Paula, a Catholic school run by Vicentin nuns. Souza left school when she was fourteen because of a tuberculosis diagnostic, but then she became an autodidact.

At eighteen, she began to collaborate with the magazine Oasis, and at twenty wrote for A República, a larger circulation newspaper which gave her visibility to other regions' press. Her poems were published in Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Paiz.

The following year she would write assiduously for Natal newspaper A Tribuna, and her verses were published together with several writers from Brazil northeast.^[3] Between 1899 and 1900, she signed his poems under the pseudonyms "Ida Salúcio" and "Hilário das Neves". Several of her poems were adapted as lyrics for modinhas - popular songforms of nineteenth century Brazil.

In 1900 she published her only book, Horto, prefaced by Olavo Bilac.