Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Fernando Pessoa Klappentext Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888 and was brought up in Durban, South Africa. In 1905 he returned to Lisbon where he matriculated at the University, and continued to read and write in English. He published in 1918 35 Sonnets and in 1922 the three parts of his English Poems, all composed many years before. The rest of his life passed uneventfully in Lisbon. The only book published in his lifetime was Mensagem, a collection of poems on patriotic themes which won a consolation prize in a national competition. Pessoa also wrote under three pseudonyms, Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, whose biographies he invented. Zusammenfassung Contains poems that features four separate personae who have their own poetic identity. This title contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.

Product details

• Authors: Fernando Pessoa
• Assisted by: Jonathan Griffin (Editor), Jonathan Griffin (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2000
• EAN: 9780141184333
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118433-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets