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Ricardo Reis | |
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| Born | 19 September 1887 Oporto, Portugal |
| Died | unknown date Brazil |
| Occupation | Doctor, Poet |
| Language | Portuguese, English |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
Ricardo Reis (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiˈkaɾðu ˈʁɐjʃ]; 19 September 1887 – ?), was one of the most important heteronyms created by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa.
""I have put all my mental discipline into Ricardo Reis, dressed in his own music."
— Fernando Pessoa, "Letter to Adolfo Casais Monteiro", January 13, 1935. [1]
Born in Oporto in 1887, Ricardo Reis was one year younger than Fernando Pessoa who describes him as very little shorter and stronger, but slim and a vague matte brown. Reis was educated at a Jesuit boarding school becoming a Latinist by education and a semi-Hellenist by his own, thus writing better than Pessoa, but with a purism that his author considered exaggerated. He was a doctor and Neoclassical poet who wrote neopagan, epicurist and stoicist odes. Politically a monarchist, he went into exile to Brazil after the defeat of a monarchical rebellion in Oporto against the Portuguese Republic [a] in 1919.[2]
"Around 1912, unless I make a mistake (which can never be a big one), I came up with the idea of writing some pagan poems. I sketched a few things in irregular verse (not in the Álvaro de Campos style, but in a half-regular style), and abandoned the case. I had, however, sketched a vague portrait of the person who was doing it (Ricardo Reis had been born, unbeknownst to me)."
— Fernando Pessoa, "Letter to Adolfo Casais Monteiro", January 13, 1935.
- ^ Pessoa, Fernando, Correspondência 1923–1935 (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim.
- ^ Manuela Parreira da Silva, Ricardo Reis, MODERN!SMO - Arquivo Virtual da Geração de Orpheu.
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