Multitudinous Heart
Selected Poems
$30.13
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2015
Summary
Brazil’s foremost twentieth-century poet, in Penguin Classics for the first time.
In 1962 de Andrade published Antologia Poetica, a personal anthology of poems from his first ten books. This selection draws on de Andrade’s anthology to encompass his finest works within his chosen areas of interest: The Individual, Minas Gerais, Family, Friends, Social Confrontation, Experience of Love, Poetry Itself, and An Attempt to Understand Existence.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141396958 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141396954 |
| Author: | Carlos Drummond de Andrade |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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The work of Drummond reaches … a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective
The work of Drummond reaches … a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective – Alfredo Bosi, author and historian
About The Author
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade was born in a Brazilian mining village in 1902. He worked in government for most of his life. He received widespread recognition for his modernist style of poetry, which broke from more traditional rules of verse and meter. He has been embraced as a national poet, with a statue placed on the sea front in Rio and his poem ‘Friendly Song’ printed on Brazilian currency. He died in 1987.
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