
A Centenary Pessoa
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This collection of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that question. It 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, and some of his original English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a critical anthology, two posthumous 'interviews' and illustrations from the Pessoa archive are also included, to reveal the world of Pessoa in all its richness.
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Carcanet was the first English-language publisher of Fernando Pessoa in 1971. In 1997 Carcanet published Richard Zenith's translation of The Book of Disquietude. Eugenio Lisboa was born in Mozambique in 1930 and educated there and in Portugal. An eminent poet, essayist and literary critic, his publications include standard works on Jose Regio and Jorge de Sena, and critical studies of modernism in Portugal. L.C. Taylor was the director of the Gulbenkian Foundation and a founder of the Carcanet Press / Gulbenkian Foundation series Aspects of Portugal, for which he edited Rose Macaulay's They Went to Portugal, Too (1990). He co-edited A Centenary Pessoa with Eugenio Lisboa for the Fyfield series. Keith Bosley was born in Buckinghamshire in 1937 and read French at Reading, Paris and Caen. He is the author of six collections of poems. Over twenty works of translation include Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic (1977), Mallarme: The Poems (1977), From the Theorems of Master Jean de La Ceppede (1983) and the Kalevala (1989).
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- POETRY
- POETRY
- FERNANDO PESSOA
- FERNANDO PESSOA
- from MESSAGE
- The Castles
- Dom Sebastian, King of Portugal
- Sea of Portugal
- Slanting Rain
- Song
- from Way of the Cross
- The sudden hand of some mysterious ghost
- Christmas
- Light, short, sweet
- Poor old music!
- Blank sun of useless days
- Sleep upon my breast
- Far off, in moonlight
- Poor reaper, she is singing, singing
- His Mother's Little Boy
- Seascape
- A Little Music
- After the Fair
- The stars give me a pain
- I look at the dumb lake
- She surprises just by being.
- The Final Incantation
- Cat playing in the street
- No: don't say a thing!
- Death is a bend in the road
- Autopsychography
- This
- Between sleep and dream
- In this world where we forget
- For a moment
- Freedom
- At the Tomb of Christian Rosencreutz
- To the blind and the deaf
- The moon (the English say)
- ALBERTO CAEIRO
- from The Keeper of Flocks
- 2. My gaze is clear as a sunflower
- 5. There is enough metaphysics
- 7. From my village I see as much
- 9. I am a keeper of flocks
- 14. I don't bother with rhymes
- 20. The Tagus is more beautiful
- 21. If I could crunch up the whole earth
- 24. What we see of things is things
- 28. Today I read nearly two pages
- 32. Yesterday afternoon a townsman
- 39. The mystery of things, where is it?
- 43. Sooner the flight of a bird
- 47. One exceedingly clear day
- The amazing reality of things
- If I die young
- If, after I die
- RICARDO REIS
- ODES
- Crown me with roses
- Come and sit down with me, Lydia
- The roses in the gardens of Adonis
- Everything in its season has its season
- From our resemblance to the immortal gods
- This is our only liberty
- The ancient rhythm of unsandalled feet
- I have heard tell
- I prefer roses to my country
- You, Christ, I do not hate
- The bee that on the wing hovers above
- The flower you are
- What a short season is the longest life
- Ashen already over my vain brow
- In what a flood of grief and bitterness
- To no avail now do your hands beseech
- Whatever stops is death
- Lydia, when our autumn comes along
- Not only he who hates or envies us
- You would be great?
- My only wish is that the gods forget me
- ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS
- Opiary
- Triumphal Ode
- Lisbon Revisited (1926)
- Tobacco Shop
- Putting it off
- Chance
- Note
- De la Musique
- Birthday
- Great are the deserts
- I have a bad cold
- Ah, a Sonnet.
- Typing
- On Sunday I shall walk through the gardens
- He passed me, came after me
- Martial Ode
- Tripe Oporto
- Poem in a Straight Line
- Summer Holidays
- INDEX OF ORIGINAL TITLES AND FIRST LINES
- LIFE AND TIMES
- THE BOOK OF DISQUIETUDE
- A sampler from THE BOOK OF DISQUIETUDE
- TWO POSTHUMOUS INTERVIEWS
- PROSE
- CONTENTS
- ON HIMSELF
- THE HETERONYMS
- POETICS
- CRITICAL STANDPOINTS
- ESOTERICA: Patriotism/Sebastiansim
- the Occult
- WRITERS: their freedom
- their fame
- COMMENT AND RESPONSE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- About the Author
- Copyright
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