Full text of “The Times , 1980, UK, English”

The English poetry of Pessoa is presented as a set system in which each element is not revered for itself, but as means to produce a particular effect. In the same way that the mystical purgative path aims to dislodge the soul from earthly things, Fernando Pessoa intends to detach the Portuguese reader from his cultural inertia and social hypocrisy. As with the San Juan de la Cruz Canticle, Pessoa imposes a system of associations to the reader, which forces him to participate in a process of personal growth created by the text itself.

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Much of the neo-Romantic poetic trajectories of Portuguese fin-de-siècle flow into Saudosismo, which is born out of the awareness of decadence of the Fatherland. The regeneration of the homeland, often confused ai in gambling with Sebastianism, goes through the recovery of the archetypal values of nationality, through the “return to Paradise”. In this regenerative tendency, we can find the ideology behind the collection of English poems by Fernando Pessoa. The poet confesses how he loves and how he moralises (without any of the usual social oods96 restrictions), the origin of his passion and his desire for didacticism.

Full text of “The Times , 1980, UK, English”

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• In this regenerative tendency, we can find the ideology behind the collection of English poems by Fernando Pessoa.
• The English poetry that goes from Epithalamium to Inscriptions, as well as in ascetic poetry, instructs the reader about the intellectual behavior they must assume, in order to “save themselves” from their ignominious and culturally poor society.
• The regeneration of the homeland, often confused with Sebastianism, goes through the recovery of the archetypal values of nationality, through the “return to Paradise”.
• The poet confesses how he loves and how he moralises (without any of the usual social restrictions), the origin of his passion and his desire for didacticism.
• Much of the neo-Romantic poetic trajectories of Portuguese fin-de-siècle flow into Saudosismo, which is born out of the awareness of decadence of the Fatherland.
• As with the San Juan de la Cruz Canticle, Pessoa imposes a system of associations to the reader, which forces him to participate in a process of personal growth created by the text itself.

His main obsession is to enlighten the lost souls of his contemporary society. The English poetry of Fernando Pessoa suggests his musical and didactic tendencies, in which a poetic system is established in the style of oods96 the ascetic and mystical poetry of the Renaissance. The English poetry that goes from Epithalamium to Inscriptions, as well as in ascetic poetry, instructs the reader about the intellectual behavior they must assume, in order to “save themselves” from their ignominious and culturally poor society. In the first part of Mad Fiddler, Modernist aesthetics are analyzed, as a new but insufficient factor Gambling in welcoming the Sebastianist regeneration, that the author intends to carry out. In the second part of this book of poems, the poet introduces the reader to the hermetic aesthetic initiation, which will form the unitive way with the poetic and cultural divinity of Pessoan Sebastianism.