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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, 49A2 – 17
BNP/E3, 49A2 – 17
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Fernando Pessoa
Identificação
Fernando Pessoa – “What should we love, what should we reverse?…”

[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 17]

 

29/4/09.

 

What should we love, what should we reverse?

Life is not worth neither laugh[1] nor tear

Not a slung of shoulders, of disdain born,

But a mute, †, empty scorn.

What do we deserve? What must we obey?

What is † which to the soul to say?

It is |idle| to him, for we know not why

And, even as wish, idle to desire to[2] die. 

 


 
[1] laugh /sigh\
[2] idle to desire to /idle een to wish to\

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Classificação
Literatura
Dados Físicos
Dados de produção
29/4/1909.
Inglês
Dados de conservação
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Palavras chave
Documentação Associada
Patricrio Ferrari, «Bridging Archives: Twenty-¬Five Unpublished English Poems by Fernando Pessoa», In: Pessoa Plural: 8 (O./Fall 2015) pp. 385-386.