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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100143039555

ISBN-139780143039556

eBay Product ID (ePID)48636343

Product Key Features

Book TitleLittle Larger than the Entire Universe : Selected Poems

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEuropean / Spanish & Portuguese, Subjects & Themes / Nature, General

Publication Year2006

GenrePoetry

AuthorFernando Pessoa

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-056561

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition22

Notes byZenith, Richard

Reviews"Pessoa was one of the great, twentieth-century poets, the equal of Yeats, Rilke, Valéry, Lorca, Pasternak, or Hart Crane. Here, at long last, is a copious selection, translated by the gifted poet and scholar Richard Zenith. It is cause for rejoicing." John Ashbery

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal861/.141

Grade ToUP

SynopsisThe largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from "the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of" ( Los Angeles Times ) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa: A Biography A Penguin Classic Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three "heteronyms"Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Camposalter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa's major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius., This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and from the vast and varied work he wrote under his own name., The largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from "the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of" ( Los Angeles Times ) Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Richard Zenith, the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Pessoa- A Biography A Penguin Classic Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) left a prodigious body of work, much of it credited to three"heteronyms"Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, and Alvaro de Camposalter egos with startlingly different styles, points of view, and biographies. Offering a unique sampling of his most famous voices, this collection features Pessoa's major, best-known works and several stunning poems that have come to light only in this century, including his long, highly autobiographical swan song. Featuring a rich body of work that has never before been translated into English, this is the finest introduction available to the stunning breadth of Pessoa's genius., The poetry of the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of ("Los Angeles Times") Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under heteronymsfully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view. Offering a unique sampling of all his most famous voices, this collection features poems that have never before been translated alongside many originally composed in English. In addition to such major works as Maritime Ode of Campos and his Goethe-inspired "Faust," written in blank verse, there are several stunning poems that have only come to light in the last five years. Selected and translated by leading Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, this is the finest introduction available to the breadth of Pessoas genius.

LC Classification NumberPQ9261.P417A6 2006