
Critical
Essays on Portuguese and Modernist Literature, from all over the world,
published together in a single website!
Welcome to Portal Pessoa!
Portal
Pessoa is a new website dedicated to the Portuguese Modernist Fernando
Pessoa (1888-1935).
Portal
Pessoa will publish and make available, in a single location, critical
essays connected to Portuguese and Modernist literature. It constitutes
a valuable new channel for academics, professionals, and other interested
parties to publish their work and share it with other readers. Over
time, it will become an invaluable critical database of top-quality
essays about Portuguese and Modernist literature.
Portal
Pessoa pays for every essay it selects for publication, and offers
access to the essays on its database free of charge.
We
are currently looking for new essays to publish. Click on ‘Submit
an essay’ to find out more.
NEW
ESSAY: We are very proud to offer you a new essay by George Monteiro, Professor Emeritus of English and of de Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at Brown University, published here for the first time. ‘Campos, Caeiro, and Clough, the Victorian Modernist’ is a further fascinating example of his comparative approach.
For those interested in Fernando Pessoa’s relationship to English literature, we strongly recommend the following full-length books by Monteiro:
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Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Literature (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000)
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The Presence of Pessoa: English, American, and South-African Literary Responses (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998)