Pessoa, Fernando

Pessoa, Fernando

▪ Portuguese poet
in full  Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa 
born June 13, 1888, Lisbon, Port.
died Nov. 30, 1935, Lisbon

      poet whose part in Modernism gave Portuguese literature European significance.

      From the age of seven Pessoa lived in Durban, S.Af., where his stepfather was Portuguese consul. He became fluent in English and wrote his early verse in English. In 1905 he returned to Lisbon, where he remained, working as a commercial translator while contributing to avant-garde reviews, especially Orpheu (1915), the organ of the Modernist movement, of which Pessoa was a leading aesthetician. He began publishing books of English poetry in 1918, but it was not until 1934 that his first book in Portuguese, Mensagem, appeared. It attracted little attention.

      Fame came to Pessoa after his death in 1935, when his extraordinarily rich dream world, peopled with alter egos whose poetry he produced along with his own, became generally known. Though the works of the imaginary poets differ in outlook and style from the work done under Pessoa's own name, taken together they express different personalities that he felt to exist within himself. Among his most important works are Poesias de Fernando Pessoa (1942), Poesias de Álvaro de Campos (1944), Poemas de Alberto Caeiro (1946), and Odes de Ricardo Reis (1946). Over the last two decades of his life Pessoa worked on a diary-like work of fragments, published together for the first time in 1982 as Livro do desassossego (The Book of Disquiet).

      Collections of his work in English translation include The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa (2001), edited and translated by Richard Zenith, and A Centenary Pessoa (1995).

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