The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro Art techniques & principles Napoleon was none of these

Napoleon was none of these things

Amid thetrivial and frivolous

an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road

While Britain hovered on the brink of the Second World War

The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro Art techniques & principles Napoleon was none of theseHere, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari's splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary "heteronym" coterie created by Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese modernist master. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mrio de Sa Crrneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando Pessoa's greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep,