Pessoa, Fernando: The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro: Bilingual Edition

The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro: Bilingual Edition by Fernando Pessoa. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari. Edited by Jerónimo Pizarro & Patricio Ferrari (New Directions, paperback) Publication Date: July 28, 2020 Publisher Marketing: "Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary master of the "heteronym" coterie created by the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mário de Sá-Carneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando Pessoa's greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep, The Shepherd in Love, and Uncollected Poems. This imaginary author was a shepherd who spent most of his life in the countryside, had almost no education, and was ignorant of most literature; yet he (Pessoa) wrote some of the most beautiful and profound poems in Portuguese l