![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for writing poetry under the guise of four distinct literary personalities (heteronyms), Pessoa published only one complete book of poems during his lifetime- Mensagem, or Message. He never returned to school and rarely ever left the area of greater Lisbon. Pessoa returned to the Portuguese capital in 1905, where he enrolled in the University of Lisbon, but two years later abandoned his studies in favor of a career as a commercial correspondent. ![]() Pessoa’s stepfather was the Portuguese consul in Durban, South Africa, and after the boy and his mother moved there in 1896, he attended local schools and became fluent in English. ![]() When Pessoa was five years old, his father died, and his mother remarried two years later. A group of 44 poems set mainly in Portugal, but also in Africa and India, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century written 1913-34 published in Portuguese (as Mensagem) in 1934, in English in 1992.įeaturing the motif of the semi-legendary King Sebastian, the poems revolve around key events and figures of Portuguese history and myth in relation to the nation’s founding, the Reconquest, and the voyages of exploration.Įvents in History at the Time the Poem Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Poem Was Writtenįernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon on June 13, 1888, and he died there in November 1935. ![]()
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