Pessoa and the Masters: Antero de Quental, Cesário Verde, Camilo Pessanha, Fernando Pessoa

“To each one of only three poets in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portugal can the term ‘master’ be applied. They are Antero de Quental, Cesário Verde and Camilo Pessanha. I concede that a few might come before these on general merit; I do not concede that another can come before any one of these in terms of opening up a new path, revealing a new direction, which in matters of literature, properly speaking, constitutes mastery. (...) Ler mais…