Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/42353
Title: Transcendent poetic dwelling: Emerson, Caeiro, and an unpublished English poem
Authors: Ferrari, Patricio
Keywords: Pessoa;Caeiro;Archive;Unpublished English poetry;transcendentalism;Pessoa;Caeiro;Arquivo;poesia inglesa inédita de Pessoa;transcendentalismo
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Journal: http://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/42307
Abstract: We can only speculate as to what drew Pessoa to Emerson’s work. Was it their common interest in Thomas Carlyle, the New Englander’s life‑long British friend and most devoted correspondent? Was it his concept of the imagination and the role of the “Poet”? Or was it perhaps his transcendental understanding of “Nature,” with its radical implications for the nature of personal identity? An unpublished English poem written by Pessoa only fifteen days after the last dated poem from Caeiro’s forty‑‑nine poem sequence holds an uncanny echo in tone, mood, and imagery with the shepherd poet. In turn, Pessoa’s English poem reminds us of Emerson’s scene on the Boston Commons, in his first chapter of “Nature,” where seeing and being are one and the same.
Quais as razões da atração de Pessoa por Emerson? Só poderemos especular. Seria o seu interesse comum em Thomas Carlyle, amigo de longa data do americano e seu devoto correspondente? Ou seria o conceito de imaginação e do papel do “Poeta” presentes em Emerson? Ou talvez o entendimento transcendentalista da “Natureza”, nas suas implicações radicais sobre a natureza da identidade pessoal? Um dos poemas ingleses, inédito, de Pessoa, escrito quinze dias depois do último poema datado da sequência dos quarenta e nove de Caeiro, ecoa estranhamente o tom, estado de espírito e imagética do poeta pastoril. Por sua vez, os poemas ingleses de Pessoa fazem‑nos lembrar a cena no Boston Commons, incluída no primeiro capítulo da obra de Emerson, “Nature”, onde o ser e o ver são uma e a mesma coisa.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/42353
ISBN: 978-989-26-1308-6 (PDF)
978-989-26-1307-9
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1308-6_41
Rights: open access
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