FIRST ANTHOLOGY

Fernando Pessoa bequeathed a unique body of work in both poetry and prose. Today he stands as an indispensable name in the canon of world literature, with translations and editions in dozens of languages across all continents, and with countless testimonies to his influence on the literature, the arts, and the philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries. This volume offers readers a bilingual edition of the first anthology of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry, edited by Adolfo Casais Monteiro in the 1940s. This work includes an historically significant selection of poems and prose, including the letter Pessoa wrote to Casais Monteiro himself to explain the origin of his heteronyms.