Fernando Pessoa is often described as a modern poet. Octavio Paz says of Pessoa that he "fits into the tradition of the great poets of the modern era,"" C.K. Williams calls him "the poet of modernism,"" and Hong and Brown say he "deserves to be viewed with the major modernists."" But modernism as a frame of reference, when reading Pessoa's ... with the first three elements. In a letter to his beloved friend, Mario de Sá-Carneiro, Pessoa speaks of his despair and sorrow: "...I find myself today at the bottom of a bottomless depression....I am a sad child abused by life."" He assures his frie...

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