Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying: ... mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the...
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Author of paradoxes as clear as water and, as water, dizzying: ... mysterious man who does not cultivate mystery, mysterious as the mid-day moon, taciturn phantom of the Portuguese mid-day - who is Pessoa?' asks Octavio Paz. This collection of the work of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) answers that question. It 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, and some of his original English writings. A major introductory essay by Octavio Paz, a cri
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; POETRY; POETRY; FERNANDO PESSOA; FERNANDO PESSOA; from MESSAGE; The Castles; Dom Sebastian, King of Portugal; Sea of Portugal; Slanting Rain; Song; from Way of the Cross; The sudden hand of some mysterious ghost; Christmas; Light, short, sweet; Poor old music!; Blank sun of useless days; Sleep upon my breast; Far off, in moonlight; Poor reaper, she is singing, singing; His Mother's Little Boy; Seascape; A Little Music; After the Fair; The stars give me a pain; I look at the dumb lake
She surprises just by being.The Final Incantation; Cat playing in the street; No: don't say a thing!; Death is a bend in the road; Autopsychography; This; Between sleep and dream; In this world where we forget; For a moment; Freedom; At the Tomb of Christian Rosencreutz; To the blind and the deaf; The moon (the English say); ALBERTO CAEIRO; from The Keeper of Flocks; 2. My gaze is clear as a sunflower; 5. There is enough metaphysics; 7. From my village I see as much; 9. I am a keeper of flocks; 14. I don't bother with rhymes; 20. The Tagus is more beautiful
21. If I could crunch up the whole earth24. What we see of things is things; 28. Today I read nearly two pages; 32. Yesterday afternoon a townsman; 39. The mystery of things, where is it?; 43. Sooner the flight of a bird; 47. One exceedingly clear day; The amazing reality of things; If I die young; If, after I die; RICARDO REIS; ODES; Crown me with roses; Come and sit down with me, Lydia; The roses in the gardens of Adonis; Everything in its season has its season; From our resemblance to the immortal gods; This is our only liberty; The ancient rhythm of unsandalled feet; I have heard tell
I prefer roses to my countryYou, Christ, I do not hate; The bee that on the wing hovers above; The flower you are; What a short season is the longest life; Ashen already over my vain brow; In what a flood of grief and bitterness; To no avail now do your hands beseech; Whatever stops is death; Lydia, when our autumn comes along; Not only he who hates or envies us; You would be great?; My only wish is that the gods forget me; ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS; Opiary; Triumphal Ode; Lisbon Revisited (1926); Tobacco Shop; Putting it off; Chance; Note; De la Musique; Birthday; Great are the deserts
I have a bad coldAh, a Sonnet…; Typing; On Sunday I shall walk through the gardens; He passed me, came after me; Martial Ode; Tripe Oporto; Poem in a Straight Line; Summer Holidays; INDEX OF ORIGINAL TITLES AND FIRST LINES; LIFE AND TIMES; THE BOOK OF DISQUIETUDE; A sampler from THE BOOK OF DISQUIETUDE; TWO POSTHUMOUS INTERVIEWS; PROSE; CONTENTS; ON HIMSELF; THE HETERONYMS; POETICS; CRITICAL STANDPOINTS; ESOTERICA: Patriotism/Sebastiansim; the Occult; WRITERS: their freedom; their fame; COMMENT AND RESPONSE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; About the Author; Copyright;
