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Clépsidra

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In Camilo Pessanha
Later collected in Clépsidra (1920), it became a breviary for the Modernist poets. Pessanha’s imagery and musicality influenced poet Fernando Pessoa, with whom he exchanged some correspondence.
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Portuguese literature

In Portuguese literature: Poetry
Collected in Clepsidra (1920; “Water Clock”), Pessanha’s poetry had previously attracted the attention of Fernando Pessoa, with whom he corresponded, and the poets of the avant-garde review Orpheu (founded 1915). A fin de siècle current of exoticism and Orientalism is present in the works of Wenceslau de…
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