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Selected poems

Fernando Pessoa ; translated by Jonathan Griffin

(Penguin classics)

Penguin Books, 2000, c1982

2nd ed. with new supplement

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"Reprint in Penguin classics 2000"--T.p. verso

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The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's poets and poetry contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.

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