Twenty-two New Translations: English renditions of Pessoa's heteronymous Portuguese poems

Abstract

Here we present twenty-two Pessoan poems rendered in English by George Monteiro. These poems are attributed to three heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa: two numbered texts from O Guardador de Rebanhos (The Keeper of Sheep) of Alberto Caeiro; ten loose poems and a cycle of five sonnets by Álvaro de Campos; and five odes of Ricardo Reis. Each translation contains three elements, respectively: the English recreation by Monteiro; the facsimile of the Portuguese original by Fernando Pessoa (or of the last Portuguese version, if there exist more than one Pessoan document concerning the poem); and a transcription of the Portuguese text, in the case of a manuscript (solely notes in the case of a legible typescript prepared by Pessoa).

Keywords

• Heteronyms
• Translations
• Reis, Ricardo
• Caeiro, Alberto
• Campos, Alvaro de
• Tradução
• Caeiro, Alberto
• Guardador de Rebanhos
• Sonnets