Fernando Pessoa: Antinous: A Poem

Cover: 9788027378210 | Antinous: A Poem | Fernando Pessoa | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023

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Antinous: A Poem is Fernando Pessoa's richly wrought English elegy on the death and apotheosis of Antinous, the beloved of Emperor Hadrian. Written in a heightened, sensuous idiom, the poem fuses classical subject matter with late-Victorian and Decadent aesthetics, recalling Swinburne, Wilde, and the fin-de-siècle fascination with beauty, transgression, and sacred erotic grief. Its elaborate rhetoric and sculptural imagery transform private mourning into a meditation on desire, mortality, and myth. Pessoa, born in Lisbon in 1888 and educated partly in Durban, South Africa, was unusually at home in English literary culture. Before becoming celebrated for his heteronyms and Portuguese modernism, he composed ambitious English poems that reveal his cosmopolitan formation and his attraction to masks, ancient personae, and divided selves. Antinous reflects this apprenticeship: classical erudition becomes a means of exploring forbidden feeling through historical distance. This poem is recommended to readers interested in Pessoa beyond The Book of Disquiet, and to those drawn to modernist engagements with antiquity, queer literary history, and ornate philosophical lyricism. It rewards slow reading.