Clepsidra. Introduction by Isabel Pascoal.Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses, 25.

PESSANHA, Camilo.

Verlag: Lisbon, Editora Ulisseia, 1987.

Beschreibung

8°, original illustrated wrappers. As new. 94 pp., (2 ll.). *** First published in 1920. Saraiva and Lopes (p. 977) describe Pessanha's work as "o melhor conjunto de poemas simbolistas portugueses, que exerceram profunda influencia na geração de Orpheu." Pessanha aimed to avoid any sentimental expression, and to achieve simplicity, precision and an "equilibrio fonético" (ibid., p. 978).Camilo Pessanha (1867-1926) helped found the Portuguese Symbolist movement while studying at Coimbra University, where he and several friends (Eugénio de Castro, António Nobre, Alberto de Oliveira and Alberto Osório de Castro) published Os Insubmissos and Boémia Nova. Pessanha seems to have been indifferent to whether his own works were published, and during the 1880s and 1890s, only a few of his poems appeared, scattered in various periodicals. In 1894 he left for Macau, where he spent most of the rest of his life. On a trip to Lisbon in 1916, he dictated many of his works, which he knew by heart, and rarely wrote down. Some of these appeared in the review Centauro. Clepsydra appeared four years later, from the press of his cousin Ana de Castro Osório.***. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 92141

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Titel: Clepsidra. Introduction by Isabel ...

Verlag: Lisbon, Editora Ulisseia, 1987.

Einband: Softcover