Authors

Portuguese · 1855–1886

Cesário Verde

Cesário Verde was a Portuguese poet who died at thirty-one of tuberculosis, leaving a small body of work — O Livro de Cesário Verde (published posthumously 1887) — that was enormously influential on Fernando Pessoa and subsequent Portuguese modernism. His poetry is urban, impressionistic, and precise in its observation of Lisbon street life, market scenes, and the contrast between city squalor and rural memory. Pessoa identified him as one of his most important predecessors.