This collection of the work of Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) is an essential introduction to the work of one of the most original European poets of the twentieth century. It includes translations of a broad selection of his poems and his extraordinary prose, as well as some of his original English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a critical anthology, two posthumous "interviews," and archived illustrations are also included, revealing the world of Pessoa in all its richness.
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`Pessoa's amazing personality is as beguiling and mysterious as his unique poetic output. We cannot learn too much about him.' - William Boyd.
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Original Language: Portugese --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Ulissabon, latter-day Ithaca to one whose name means Person, many-sided poet for whom a humdrum job provided, stepson of Adamastor's Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yellow jockey, patriotic suffering, poems edited, undated fragment, tobacco shop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fernando Pessoa, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caeiro, Bernardo Soares, Victor Hugo, Almada Negreiros, Pickwick Papers, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, Triumphal Ode, Fifth Empire, Teixeira Gomes, The Keeper of Flocks, Paradise Lost, Prince Henry the Navigator, The Anarchist Banker, Afonso Lopes Vieira, Gomes Leal, Lisbon Revisited, Oblique Rain, Aldous Huxley, Chevalier de Pas, Divine Comedy, Mondrian Composition New!
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Ulissabon, latter-day Ithaca to one whose name means Person, many-sided poet for whom a humdrum job provided, stepson of Adamastor's Africa. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
yellow jockey, patriotic suffering, poems edited, undated fragment, tobacco shop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fernando Pessoa, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Alberto Caeiro, Bernardo Soares, Victor Hugo, Almada Negreiros, Pickwick Papers, Adolfo Casais Monteiro, Triumphal Ode, Fifth Empire, Teixeira Gomes, The Keeper of Flocks, Paradise Lost, Prince Henry the Navigator, The Anarchist Banker, Afonso Lopes Vieira, Gomes Leal, Lisbon Revisited, Oblique Rain, Aldous Huxley, Chevalier de Pas, Divine Comedy, Mondrian Composition New!
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- Fernando Pessoa (Pocket Archives Series) by Maria Jose De Lancastre on 9 pages
- Banqueiro Anarquista (Spanish Edition) by Fernando Pessoa on 4 pages
- Selected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics) by R S Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 290, page 291, and page 293
- Poems of Fernando Pessoa by Fernando Pessoa in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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