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Boto António <1897-1959.> |
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Titolo |
The songs of António Botto [[electronic resource] /] / António Botto ; translated [from the Portuguese] by Fernando Pessoa ; edited and with an introduction by Josiah Blackmore |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PessoaFernando <1888-1935.> |
BlackmoreJosiah <1959-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Portuguese poetry - 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Original translation privately printed, 1948. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; A Note on the Text of the Songs; Introduction: António Botto's Bruises of Light; THE SONGS OF ANTÓNIO BOTTO; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of First Lines |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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António Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poète maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses about homosexual life and passion were both praised and reviled when they appeared in Portuguese in 1922 under the title Canções . Botto's poetic voice-confessional, personal, and intimate-revels and luxuriates in eroticism while expressing the ache of longing, silence, and suffering. Yet for all of his acclaim and notoriety-he was both hailed as one of the great poets of his day and condemned for his frank depictions of male-male desire-Botto and his work fell into oblivion after |
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