Guardador de Rebanhos

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Sheep Meadow Press, 1997 - Literary Criticism - 119 pages
On a singular March day in 1914, Fernando Pessoa felt his master appear inside him, Alberto Caeiro, the heteronym that stands over his epiphanic collection, composed that day The Keeper of Sheep -- the pivotal work in the career of Portugal's great modern poet. Of the poet's persona Octavio Paz declares, his words strike us as truths from another age, that age in which everything was the same. The Keeper of Sheep is appears here in its original Portuguese beside its first English translation.

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Ao entardecer debruçado pela janela
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Há metafisica bastante em não pensar
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água Alberto Caeiro aldeia alma altos ramos Álvaro de Campos árvores e montes belo borboleta casa Cesário Verde céu chuva cidades cimo coisas comigo contrário criança delas dera Deus Devo dia de Verão digo diligência divine dizer doente earth encosta entardecer escrevo estrada eternal falar feel Fernando Pessoa flor flores flowers gente Guardador de Rebanhos heteronymic homem homens ideias janela Keeper of Sheep leve lightly Lisbon luar mão mistério místico modo momento moonlight Mundo mystic Nature Natureza nele nisso noite olhando olhar olhos outeiro ouvidos passa pedras pensamentos pensar penso poems poet poetas Porque Portuguese Portuguese Poetry que eu que não renque rio que corre river saber Saint Barbara Santa Bárbara são sempre senão sentido sentir sinto someone soul Tagus tall branches tarde Tejo tenho terra things tinha trees triste única Universo vêem vejo vento versos vida Virgílio

About the author (1997)

FERNANDO PESSOA was born in Lisbon in 1888. As a young man, he dropped out of university and made his living by translating, writing in avant-garde reviews, and drafting business letters in English and French. He began publishing criticism in 1912, creative prose in 1913, and poetry in 1914. He published his works under a variety of alter egos he called heteronyms--Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Álvaro de Campos, and nearly seventy others. He died in Lisbon, in 1935.

Bibliographic information

TitleGuardador de Rebanhos
AuthorFernando Pessoa
Translated byEdwin Honig, Susan Margaret Brown
PublisherSheep Meadow Press, 1997
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedMay 15, 2008
ISBN1878818457, 9781878818454
Length119 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Literary Criticism / General
Poetry / European / General
Poetry / General
  
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