Cesário Verde

José Joaquim Cesário Verde ( born February 25, 1855 in Lisbon, Portugal, † July 18, 1886 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese poet. He inspired Fernando Pessoa and is considered one of the most important young poet in the second half of the 19th century in Portugal.

Life

Verde came from middle-class background. He studied philology. His father had an export business of hardware products in which the eldest son of the family maintained a modest living as a commercial correspondent until his death; the family owned a country estate in Linda-a- Pastora, 15 Km from Lisbon. His first poem he published with 18 years in the arts section of a newspaper.

The poet died on 18 July 1886, 31 years to TB disease. Most poems were published in scattered Lisbon and Portuenser newspapers and literary journals. His best friend brought in 1887 a volume of about twenty verses - half of the known to date about forty poems of Verde - out. During his lifetime, the author remained unknown. 1919 a fire destroyed his original manuscripts.

Poet of the big city

As a reader of Charles Baudelaire, who also influenced greatly him to Verde employed in his verses mainly with life in the big city, especially in Lisbon and Porto, and the question of the first, delicate industrial developments in Portugal during his time. He is considered the forerunner of the Portuguese literary Modernism. Verde was a flâneur in Lisbon, where he walked through the streets at night and in the melancholy of the darkness devised his verses or even wrote. But the dark side of urban Lisbon, their filth, their noise, their misery, interested him and were portrayed by him.

Posthumous honors

Besides Antero de Quental Verde is the preeminent poet Portuguese in the 19th century. Its young, short life fascinated generations of imitators, to whom he was as a man and poet model, especially Fernando Pessoa, who often explicitly made ​​reference to him. His most famous poem is " O sentimento dum Ocidental " ( The feeling of westerners ), which was published in 1880 in a newspaper, on the occasion of the 300th year of death of Camões. The state honored him by naming a street in Lisbon, at a Metro station his verses have been immortalized in the wall, stamps with his likeness were printed, detailed literary research has also been operated, which resulted in the edition of his collected works in 1964, a bust standing in a park and is reminiscent of the poet. His grave was discovered on a Lisbon graveyard mid-1990s and maintained since then. His verses were translated into Spanish and Italian.

Works

• O livro de Cesario Verde, edited by Manuel Jose de Silva Pinto, 1887 ( posthumously ).
• Obra completa de Cesario Verde, edited by Joel Serrão, 1964.

Swell

• Kindler's new literary lexicon - main works of the Portuguese and Spanish literature, S.691ff.
• Literature of and over Cesário Verde in the catalog that German national library
• Www.poetryinterantionalweb.net/piu/site/poet/item/14821
• Www.personal-u.net.com/-luso/cesario.htm

• Author
• Literature (19th century)
• Literature ( Portuguese)
• Person ( Lisbon )
• Poetry
• Portuguese
• Born in 1855
• Died in 1886
• Man