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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.

 

Medium
F. Pessoa - Heterónimos ingleses
BNP/E3, 78A – 1
BNP/E3, 78A – 1
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Alexander Search
Identificação
Alexander Search – The Game

[BNP/E3, 78A – 1]

 

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The Game.

 

Come, let us play a game, little boy,

     To while the world away.

What shall be - tell me - our harmless toy?

     At what shall we play?

 

Shall we play - shall we? - at being great?

     No, nor at being grand

Shall we believe that we are Fate

     And make up lives out of sand?

 

No, little boy, we will play that we are

     Happy, and that we are gay;

Let us pretend we are dreams, very far

     From the world in which we play.

 

Alexander Search

 

January 2nd. 1908

 

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
January 2nd. 1908
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Fernando Pessoa, Poesia Inglesa, Organização, tradução e notas de Luísa Freire, Prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1995, pp. 144, 146.