From Lisbon to the World: Fernando Pessoa's Enduring Literary Presence [Paperback]

Fernando Pessoa is one of the 20th centurysgreatest poets. Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally being translatedinto English. Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa was only forty-seven when he died, but he left behind a staggering number of unpublished manuscripts that are still beingbrought to light. George Steiner heralded the day Pessoa discovered his major Portuguese heteronyms.Today well over a hundred Pessoa heteronyms are known. Lately, another Pessoa is emerging - an English writer and thinker.In this volume Monteiro continues to explore and interpret the world of Pessoa to English-speaking readers.

Contents Series Editors' Preface Author's Preface Acknowledgments 1. Works and Days 2. Imaginary Poets 3. The Great War 4. O Menino : Follow-Up 5. Campbells Discovery 6. A Book That Never Was 7. Ulysses, Founder 8. Myth is the Message 9. Pessoa's Critics 10. The First Symposium 11. Notes for a Review 12. The Bat and the Raven 13. Oflia's Lovers 14. Poe Spiritualized 15. lvaro de Campos: Note 16. The Bishop and Edwin Honig 17. Translating Nathaniel Hawthorne 18. Pessoa's Enduring Presence Notes Bibliography Index