Published 2016-09-22
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article examines the dialogue between Fernando Pessoa and the English romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821). It begins by exploring Pessoa’s poetic engagement with Keats’s verse, before moving on to an analysis of his assimilation of Keats’s most influential aesthetic ideas, above all those of the chameleon poet and negative capability, which I argue were a significant, yet hitherto largely unexplored, influence on Pessoa’s heteronymic invention.
KEYWORDS: influence, Pessoa, Keats, private library