Ricardo Reis (heteronym)
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Ricardo Reis (Oporto 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]
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Ricardo Reis | |
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Born | (1887-09-19)19 September 1887 Oporto, Portugal |
Died | Brazil, unknown date |
Occupation | Doctor, Poet |
Language | Portuguese, English |
Nationality | Portuguese |
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 [lower-alpha 1] 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.