A Poet's Way With Music - Humanism in Jorge de Sena's Poetry
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Francisco Cota Fagundes, 1988. ISBN 0-943722-15-2
The poetry of Jorge de Sena, a Portuguese writer who lived and worked in the United States, is inextricably tied to music. He states in the first poem of Art of Music: "La Cathédrale engloutie", by Debussy, that this work of music was responsible for his decision to become a poet. Although Sena had written poems before, it was on that day in 1936, as he tells us elsewhere, that Sena (seriously) decided to commit himself to a poetical career that was to last over forty years.
Francisco Cota Fagundes is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
The poetry of Jorge de Sena, a Portuguese writer who lived and worked in the United States, is inextricably tied to music. He states in the first poem of Art of Music: "La Cathédrale engloutie", by Debussy, that this work of music was responsible for his decision to become a poet. Although Sena had written poems before, it was on that day in 1936, as he tells us elsewhere, that Sena (seriously) decided to commit himself to a poetical career that was to last over forty years.
Francisco Cota Fagundes is Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
