# Selected Poems

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- Authors: [Alberto Caeiro](https://www.bookquiver.com/alberto-caeiro)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-433-3
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2000-11-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity, together they convey a sense of ambivalence and consolidate a striving for completeness. Dramatic, lyrical, Christian, pagan, old and modern, Pessoa's poets and poetry contribute to the 'mysterious importance of existence'.