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Fernando Pessoa.
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The achievement of Fernando Pessoa has no parallel in modern literature. Yet, while widely recognized as one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the Portuguese language, he nevertheless remai...
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In this excerpt, Sheets discusses Pessoa's Alberto Caeiro heteronym, and relates his poetic aesthetic to Zen Buddhism, existentialism, and that of French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet.
If one acce...
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In the following excerpt, Barrow examines the dramatic and lyric elements of Mensagem, considered to be Pessoa's most significant work.
The author of Mensagem was preoccupied with the future of...
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Severino examines the effect of the Presença movement in Portugal on Pessoa's enduring reputation, and his contribution to the nationalistic movement.
To study the extent and character o...
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Sousa analyzes the structure of Mensagem, and explores its relation to the occult.
Over the past thirty-or-so years, criticism has raised a genre problematic about Mensagem, the one book of Portuguese...
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In this excerpt, Guyer relates Pessoa's work and poetic priorities to those of the Cubist aesthetic movement
The nineteenth century in the mainstream of Western civilization was unquestionably ...
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Renowned American poet John Hollander reviews two editions of English translations of Pessoa's work: The Keeper of the Sheep and Poems of Fernando Pessoa, both translated and edited by Edwin Ho...
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In the following excerpt, Cruz explores the rhetorical implications of Pessoa's use of heteronyms.
Fernando Pessoa has made an art form of psychic fragmentation. In his poems, mask (un)covers m...
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Below, Zenith provides a general overview of Pessoa's career and the development of his poetic persona(e).
Not widely known in his own country and scarcely at all outside it at the time of his ...
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Fernando (Antonio Nogueira) Pessoa
Critical Essay by Jane M. Sheets
