This collection of the work of Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is an essential introduction to the work of one of the most original European poets of the twentieth century. It includes translations of a broad selection of his poems and his extraordinary prose, as well as some of his original English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a critical anthology, two posthumous "interviews," and archived illustrations are also included, revealing the world of Pessoa in all its richness.

This is the only integral collection of Pessoa's Caeiro heteronym in English, and the poems are accompanied by the introductions of Ricardo Reis and a memoir by Alvaro de Campos, two of Pessoa's other major poetic heteronyms, as well as a poem dedicated to Caeiro by Coelho Pacheco, believed by many commentators to be another one-off heteronym. Ricardo Reis says: "Alberto Caeiro da Silva was born in Lisbon on April 16, 1889, and died of tuberculosis in the same city on (. . .), 1915. He spent nearly all his life in a village in Ribatejo, and only returned to the city of his birth in his final...

Pessoa wrote a large number of poems in English, some of them in the guise of early heteronyms (such as Alexander Search and Charles Robert Anon) which prove to be fascinating precursors of the later, modernist work in Portuguese. While not the equal of the masterly Caeiro, Campos, Reis or Pessoa-himself, these poems deserve to be better known and at least available in the English-speaking world. Pessoa was educated in English in Durban, as the stepson of a Portuguese diplomat, and was completely bilingual. He translated several books from English for Portuguese publishing houses. The...

In 1925, Fernando Pessoa wrote a guidebook to Lisbon for English-speaking visitors, and wrote it in English. The typescript was only discovered amongst his papers long after his death, but has not hitherto been made available in the UK or the USA. The book is fascinating in that it shows us Pessoa's view of his native city - and Pessoa, as an adult, rarely left Lisbon, and it figures large in his poetry. The book can still be useful to visitors today, given that the majority of the sights described are still to be found. A fascinating scrap from the master's table....

In his introduction to this dual-Portuguese/English text "Selected Poems," Butler arranges Pessoa's poems thematically, thereby providing real insight into a poet of "astonishing post-modernity."

Fernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by "thousands of philosophies," all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting fragments were never published by Pessoa himself and almost the entirety of them are presented in this edition for the very first time in history. This volume exhibits Pessoa's musings and wild insights on the history of philosophy, the failures of subjectivity, and the structure of the universe to reveal an unexpectedly scholarly, facetious, and vigorous theoretical mind. Written under the pre-heteronyms...

Antologia da obra de Fernando Pessoa onde a tematica e o Amor, abordada nao so pelo seu ortonimo como pelos seus principais heteronimos - Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis e Bernardo Soares."

Four poems about love among men: Antinous (two versions by Fernando Pessoa), David and Jonathan (three related poems by Byron Herbert Reece). Antinous has rarely appeared in print in the U.S.

Mensagem e um livro do poeta portugues Fernando Pessoa, publicado ainda em vida. Composto por 44 poemas, foi chamado pelo poeta de "livro pequeno de poemas." Publicada apenas um ano antes da morte do autor, a obra trata do glorioso passado de Portugal de forma apologetica e tenta encontrar um sentido para a antiga grandeza e a decadencia existente na epoca em que o livro foi escrito. Glorifica acima de tudo o estilo camoniano e o valor simbolico dos herois do passado, como os Descobrimentos portugueses. E apontando as virtudes portuguesas que Fernando Pessoa acredita que o pais deva se...