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Fernando Pessoa - English heteronyms

This digital edition presents the transcription of the set of texts by English personalities invented by Fernando Pessoa that we have gathered here under the name “English heteronyms”. It includes texts signed by English heteronyms, texts in English signed by Portuguese heteronyms and English Poems by Pessoa. The documents transcribed are in Fernando Pessoa’s Archive in the custody of the National Library of Portugal, with quota E3. All facsimiles are accompanied by a critical lesson and a paleographic transcription, which is available for download in the “PDF” field.

 

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F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 77 – 63
BNP/E3, 77 – 63
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Alexander Search
Identificação
Alexander Search – Work

[BNP/E3, 77 – 63]

 

Work.

 

Thou wast not put on earth to ask

If there be God, or life or death.

Seize then thy tools and to thy task

And give to toil each panting breath.

 

Thy tools thou hast, nor needst to seek

Thy health or faith or useful art,

The strength to toil, the power to speak,

A mighty mind or kindly heart.

 

Alexander Search.

 

September 1904.

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
September 1904
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Publicação parcial: Georg Rudolf Lind, “Die englische Jugenddichtung Fernando Pessoas”, in Aufsatze zur Portugiesischen Kulturgeschichte, 6 Band, Münster, 1966, p. 146.
Publicação integral: Fernando Pessoa, Poesia Inglesa, Organização, tradução e notas de Luísa Freire, Prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1995, p. 36.