Selected Poems - Softcover

Pessoa, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140421610 ISBN 13: 9780140421613

Publisher: Penguin, 1974

Synopsis

Portugese poet FERNANDO PESSOA (1888-1935) has been included by Harold Bloom in an elite group of authors, with Dante, Shakespeare, Kafka, and Joyce. He was the first poet to have elaborated at any length on the fact that art need not be a mirror to gaze into, but a mirror to peer out from. This is the first selection of Pessoa's work to concentrate on the meanings of the various heteronymns, the different people he created who in turn wrote some poems (but not Pesssoa's). In his introduction David Butler outlines the reason for the selection and concentrates on the different heteronymns Pessoa used, and includes samples of each of the characters. This is a dual-language edition in the Poetry Europe series.

About this title

About the Author

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was born in Lisbon and brought up in Durban, South Africa. He returned to Lisbon in 1905. A prolific writer, ascribing his work to a variety of personas or heteronyms, Pessoa published little in his lifetime and supported himself by working as a commercial translator. Although acknowledged as an intellectual and a poet, his literary genius went largely unrecognised until after his death.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140421610
• ISBN 13: 9780140421613
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160