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The Keeper of Sheep (O Guardador de Rebanhos)
The Keeper of Sheep - O Guardador de Rebanhos Author:Fernando Pessoa, Susan M. Brown On a singular March day in 1914, "Fernando Pessoa felt his master appear inside him, "Alberto Caeiro, " the heteronym that stands over his epiphanic collection, composed that day "The Keeper of Sheep" -- the pivotal work in the career of Portugal's great modern poet. Of the poet's persona Octavio Paz declares, "his words strike us as truths from... more » another age, that age in which everything was the same." "The Keeper of Sheep" is appears here in its original Portuguese beside its first English translation.« less