Português
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on 13 June 1888. At the age of 7, he was brought to Durban, South Africa, where he received a British education and exceled in the study of languages. In 1903 he was awarded the Queen Victoria Memorial Prize for the best English essay amongst 899 university candidates. Pessoa started writing poetry in South Africa using various pseudonyms, most of which he later attributes to Alexander Search (pseudonym created in 1906). In August 1905, he returns
to Lisbon for good and ingresses into the Curso Superior de Letras (Faculty of Arts and Letters), which he leaves after two years. But, as an autodidact, studies philosophy, religion, sociology and literature, and through his life works as journalist, literary critic, translator, publisher, advertiser, politician and astrologer. It is of particular relevance his participation in the founding of Revista Orpheu (1915), the short-lived magazine that brought Modernism to Portugal, and the collaboration with Revista Presença since 1927. Pessoa dies at age 47, on 30 November 1935.
Fernando Pessoa is regarded as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. He wrote prolifically under various pseudonyms and heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos and Bernardo Soares being the most famous. In 1917 he submits a poetry collection, The Mad Fiddler, to a London publishing house but without success. In 1918 he self-publishes the long poem Antinous and the collection 35 Sonnets and in 1921 starts is own publishing house, Editora Olisipo, which releases some of
his English poetry in two volumes (English Poems I-II and English Poems III). The present edition opens with a famous epigram from Alexander Search and includes Inscriptions (from English Poems I-II) and all the sonnets of 35 Sonnets.
Collection: Discover the Classics
Author: Fernando Pessoa
Language: English
Measurements: 120×182 mm (softcover)
Pages: 116
Publisher: TEGNER-publishing, Lda
Chancela: CARRACK books
First edition: December 2023
