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...he had begun to write verse in Coimbra, Pessanha was virtually unknown until 1916, when his innovative Symbolist poetry was published in the progressive review Centauro. 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.
...colony of Macau, in China—bridged the 19th and 20th centuries: he carried Symbolist verse to a point at which its musicality and images became fragmented and dispersed. 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...