From Lisbon to the World Fernando Pessoas Enduring Literary Presence

Fernando Pessoa is one of the 20th century's greatest poets. Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally being translated into 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 Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa was only forty-seven when he died, but he left behind a staggering number of unpublished manuscripts that are still being brought to light.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.

George Monteiro is Professor Emeritus of English and of Portuguese Studies at Brown University. He is the author of several books of poetry, translations, and critical studies.

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. Campbell's 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. Ofélia’s Lovers
14. Poe Spiritualized
15. Álvaro de Campos: Note
16. “The Bishop” and Edwin Honig
17. Translating Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. Pessoa’s Enduring Presence
Notes
Bibliography
Index