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Fernando Pessoa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Fernando Pessoa , 1888-1935, Portuguese poet, b. Lisbon. Reflecting the influence of both the classical tradition and French symbolism, his poetry moves from saudosismo, or nostalgia for a mythic past, to an increasing concern with consciousness and sensation. He is famous for having written under 73 different names. Four of these (his own, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos) are well known. Each of these personas has his own putative biography, physical characteristics, relationship to the others, poetic voice, and outlook, and in part reflects Pessoa's disbelief in... Read more

Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa
...His important volumes include Poesias de Fernando Pessoa (1942), Poesias de Alvaro de Campos (1944...Ricardo Reis (1946). Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa Read more

Portuguese literature
...became more sensitive to developments in other countries. Fernando Pessoa , largely unrecognized during his lifetime, would be acclaimed...Aquilino Ribeiro, J. M. Ferreira de Castro, Alves Redol, Fernando Namora, Agustina Bessa Luís, and others. In the early 1970s... Read more

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	Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems ; Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems, edited and...than adequately provides an overview of Fernando Pessoa's life (1888-1935) and insights into...heteronyms, or literary alter egos whom Pessoa invented. Pessoa's poetry echoes the... Read more
	Books: I met a man who wasn't there - The Book of Disquiet By Fernando Pessoa, ed & trs Richard Zenith ALLEN LANE pounds 20 The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa was known by many names. Michael Glover explores a complicated literary life through his unfinished masterpiece in prose ; ...Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935): how he conducted...Disquiet, including himself, Fernando Pessoa. Whereas many of Pessoa...could never be said of Pessoa himself, as may gradually...clearer. But who exactly was Fernando Read more
	Enrico Martines. Cartas entre Fernando Pessoa e os directores da Presenca. Lisbon. Imprensa Nacional / Casa da Moeda. 1998. 450 pages. $26.(Review) ; ...journal's young editors invited Fernando Pessoa, the most famous living poet...primary matter in Cartas entre Fernando Pessoa e os directores da Presenca...the last decade, Cartas entre Fernando Pessoa e os directores da Presenca... Read more
	Irene Ramalho Santos. Atlantic Poets: Fernando Pessoa's Turn in Anglo-American Modernism.(Book Review) ; ...Ramalho Santos, Atlantic Poets: Fernando Pessoa's Turn in Anglo-American Modernism...These sentiments emanate from Fernando Pessoa's futurist-modernist heteronym...as an extended meditation on Fernando Pessoa, the poets of Modern America... Read more
	Trois derniers jours de Fernando Pessoa. ; ...avec Les trois derniers jours de Fernando Pessoa d'Antonio Tabucchi, cette <...liasses dans une malle. La, donc, Pessoa est couche. L'infirmiere (interpretee...et causent un bref moment avec Pessoa dans un huis-clos onirique et quasiment... Read more
	Behind the masks of Fernando Pessoa.(Poet/Portugal)(Poem) ; ...train To entertain our minds. Fernando Pessoa (Zenith, p. 247) Who are you...Portugal. I picked up a book on Fernando Pessoa and discovered that he was descended...submitted. As Zenith points out in Fernando Pessoa & Co., [Pessoa] had big... Read more
	A thought for Pessoa.(Poem) ; Fernando Pessoa 1888-1935 A THOUGHT FOR PESSOA Shall I take you or leave you...you or let you hide behind the cross of the Jews? I claim you, Fernando Antonio Nogueira Pessoa, for the list of God's chosen people. Who can blame you, self... Read more
	Reconstruyen a Pessoa.(El Angel) ; Byline: Fernando de Ita Es difícil pasar...su poeta emblemático, Fernando Pessoa; de la casa a la oficina...del desasosiego, en el que Pessoa vierte sus impresiones m...septiembre-, la figura de Pessoa se desdobla con naturalidad...como Lisboa. El solitario de Pessoa es un ... Read more
	Will the real Pessoa step forward? ; ...and melancholic brain, that of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), who also published...celebratory volume A Centenary Pessoa (Carcanet Press), which also contains...paintings, drawings and sculptures Pessoa has inspired in generations of... Read more
	Pessoa revisited again ; ...Jerusalem Post 09-13-2001 Headline: Pessoa revisited again Byline: Barry...assumed identity. If the name Fernando Pessoa is not instantly familiar...worry - you're in good company. Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888...the richest collections of Pessoa's prose works, was recently... Read more

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