The Poet Hat of Fernando Pessoa | O Chapéu de Poeta de Fernando Pessoa (Bilingue Edition)

André Carrilho

Miguel Neto

Lisbon Poets & Co.

<p>The existential pilgrimage recorded in Camões' poetry is a search for something as revolutionarily modern as the pursuit of happiness on earth. His majestic epic poem, The Lusiads, centred on the pioneering voyage of Vasco da Gama to the East, which opened the doors of Renaissance Humanism to the world, is as much the celebration of a nation (Portugal) as an auto-biographical representation of his own life. C. M. Bowra characterizes it "the epic of Humanism" and Schlegel "the supreme example of epic poetry". But Camões’ lyric poetry is no less impressive. This bilingual edition, organized by two of the author's most prominent scholars, provides an ample selection of the lyric and the epic, avoiding constrictions of rhyme and metre. Camões' poetry helps us to understand the time in which he lived but also our own time.</p>

Luís de Camões - A Global Poet for Today (Bilingue Edition - English and Portuguese)

Literature & Fiction

Luís de Camões

Thomas Earle

Hélder Macedo

Poetry

Poetas de Lisboa (Bilingue Edition - Spanish and Portuguese)

FERNANDO PESSOA

Florbela Espanca

Cesário Verde

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

<p>"Nietzsche's book of aphorisms, Human, all too human. A book for free spirits, may well be considered an apt fore-description of Camilo Pessanha as a poet and as a human being. Born in Coimbra in 1867, Pessanha lived and worked in Macau from 1894 until his death, from excessive opium consumption, in 1926. During his visits to Portugal, he always contacted his good friend Ana de Castro Osório, who was responsible for the publication of Pessanha's only poetry book in 1920, Clepsydra. Associated with Symbolism, through the imagery used and the symbols that he proposes as a metaphorical reading of the world, the emergence of an underlying allegorical narrative may in fact bring his poetry into the realm of Modernism, as it conceives of human existence as a process of depersonalization. Pessanha's connections with modernist poets such as Mário de Sá-Carneiro and Fernando Pessoa are absolutely central, and his poetry enlightens much of these poets' production." (From the Introduction by H. Buescu) Pessoa called him a "Master," adding that he "discovered for us the truth that to be a poet one needn't carry one's heart in one's hands; rather it is enough to carry in them its dreams". This bilingual edition offers all of Camilo Pessanha's known poetry, translated in its entirety for the first time into English, in a new textual edition by one of Pessanha's most prominent scholars. Readers of English (and Portuguese) can now enjoy a work that is today regarded unanimously as one of the crowning achievements of Portuguese lyric poetry.</p>

Clepsydra - The Poetry of Camilo Pessanha (Bilingue Edition - English and Portuguese)

Camilo Pessanha

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