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Fernando Pessoa

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Born: June 12 1888

Died: 2929 11 19351935

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Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was a poet and writer.

It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.

The critic Harold Bloom referred to him in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda.

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

Books from Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet

Mensagem - Poemas Esotéricos

Poems of Fernando Pessoa

El banquero anarquista

Poemas de Álvaro de Campos (Obra Poética IV)

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

I Have More Souls Than One

Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems

The Keeper of Sheep

La hora del Diablo

يوميات

Obra poética de Fernando Pessoa

The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive

O Marinheiro

Odes (Ricardo Reis)

Granta Portugal 1: Eu

Tabacaria

Ode Marítima

O Guardador de Rebanhos