The Collected Poems of Alvaro de Campos Vol. 2 (v. 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1905700253 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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The major poetic heteronyms are Caeiro, Campos and Ricardo Reis, but Pessoa had a whole range of others: journalists, prose-writers, essayists, as well as two English poets in the form of Charles Robert Anon and Alexander Search, heteronyms used by Pessoa before the break-through year of 1914, when Re
Most puzzling for his readers, perhaps, is the fact that Pessoa wrote under a series of of other names - heteronyms, as he called them - and confusingly also under the 'orthonym' Fernando Pessoa, who is not the same person as the man born with that name. About the Author Fernando Pessoa is one of the great poets of the 20th Century, and is still something of a mystery to readers outside Portugal and Brazil, where his work has been elevated to classic status. Little of his work was published in book form during his lifetime: two slim volumes of English verse and the mature collection Mensagem (Message), but
According to Pessoa, Campos was born in the Algarve in 1890, studied naval engineering in Glasgow, was widely travelled, and lived for a number of years in England, working as an engineer. Álvaro de Campos, along with Ricardo Reis and Alberto Caeiro is one of Pessoa's most important poetic heteronyms and, like these fellow fictitious poets, made his first appearance in 1914. He was also something of a public figure, his essays and reviews frequently appearing in Portuguese periodicals. In later life he returned to live in Lisbon. This 2nd volume of the collected edition offers the latter part of Campos' output. Volume 1, covering the work up until 1927, which will make this the first-ever collected edition of Campos' work in English - will appear in 2010.. His poetry, especially the earlier work, celebrates the modern world and the machine age, and marks the eruption of futurism into Portuguese poetry