Pessoa and the Masters

This text, and others like it, by Fernando Pessoa - for many the greatest Portuguese-language writer of all time - have allowed us to imagine this book: a dialoguing anthology of four of the most remarkable Portuguese poets, these three acknowledged masters and Pessoa himself. In this way, essential poems from the same poetic tradition, which reached its golden age in the 20th century and had a decisive influence on later poetry, have been brought into dialogue in a bilingual edition that also makes them accessible to a wide English-speaking readership.