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The Poetry of Fernando Pessoa

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  1. Sonnet I

    1:10

  2. Sonnet II

    1:24

  3. Sonnet III

    1:16

  4. Sonnet IV

    1:25

  5. Sonnet V

    1:07

  6. Sonnet VI

    1:13

  7. Sonnet VII

    1:33

  8. Sonnet VIII

    1:17

  9. Sonnet IX

    1:22

  10. Sonnet X

    1:22

  11. Sonnet XI

    1:26

  12. Sonnet XII

    1:20

  13. Sonnet XIII

    1:22

  14. Sonnet XIV

    1:33

  15. Sonnet XV

    1:32

  16. Sonnet XVI

    1:17

  17. Sonnet XVII

    1:15

  18. Sonnet XVIII

    1:31

  19. Sonnet XIX

    1:17

  20. Sonnet XX

    1:15

  21. Sonnet XXI

    1:29

  22. Sonnet XXII

    1:33

  23. Sonnet XXIII

    1:28

  24. Sonnet XXIV

    1:26

  25. Sonnet XXV

    1:20

  26. Sonnet XXVI

    1:24

  27. Sonnet XXVII

    1:17

  28. Sonnet XXVIII

    1:39

  29. Sonnet XXIX

    1:13

  30. Sonnet XXX

    1:15

  31. Sonnet XXXI

    1:13

  32. Sonnet XXXII

    1:15

  33. Sonnet XXXIII

    1:19

  34. Sonnet XXXIV

    1:16

  35. Sonnet XXXV

    1:24

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Before Fernando Pessoa became known as the great modern poet of Portugal, he wrote in English, the language of his schooling in Durban, and this gathering collects that early verse. Its centerpiece is the 35 Sonnets, published in 1918, dense Shakespearean poems that turn a Renaissance form toward a distinctly modern doubt about knowledge, identity, and the gap between thought and speech. The lines are knotted and metaphysical, worrying at whether we can ever truly know ourselves or reach another mind. Readers who know Pessoa through his Portuguese heteronyms will recognize the same restless, fractured self at work here in a stranger key. This free PDF and EPUB edition presents his English poetry for readers new and returning.

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Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa published almost nothing in book form while he lived and left roughly twenty-five thousand pages in a trunk. Born in Lisbon in 1888 and schooled in Durban, where his stepfather was Portuguese consul, he wrote in English as well as Portuguese and earned his living translating commercial correspondence for Lisbon import houses.

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Reading time
About 45 minutes
Pages
90
Language
English
Genre
Sonnets
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