Pessoa's Antinous

Abstract

Pessoa's Antinous follows a tradition of poems on mythological dying-god figures mourned by their divine lovers, transferring the tropes of that tradition to the Roman emperor Hadrian and his lover, who had been appropriated by fin-de-siècle literary homoeroticism.

Keywords

• Pessoa, Fernando
• Antinous
• English poetry
• Decadence (Literary movement)
• Modernism
• Poesia inglesa
• Decadentismo
• Modernismo