From Lisbon to the World

Overview

Fernando Pessoa is one of the 20th century's greatest poets. Born in Lisbon in 1888, Pessoa was only forty-seven when he died, but he left behind a staggering number of unpublished manuscripts that are still being brought to light.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.

Author Biography

George Monteiro, Professor Emeritus of English and of Portuguese Studies, Brown University, has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American, English, and Portuguese literatures. Besides contributing to the scholarship on Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, and Bob Dylan, he has published books on Fernando Pessoa, José Rodrigues Miguéis, Luiz Vaz de Camões, Pedro da Silveira, Jorge de Sena, and Miguel Torga.