In Portuguese modernist poetry, which heteronym of Fernando Pessoa is an avant-garde naval engineer who wrote Ode Triunfal and Tabacaria?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Álvaro de Campos
- Step 1: Identify the heteronym born in Tavira, trained in Glasgow, known for feverish free verse and existential weariness. Step 2. Álvaro de Campos authored the machine-age poem Ode Triunfal and the existential masterpiece Tabacaria. Answer: Álvaro de Campos. Why not the others: Caeiro is the serene nature observer; Reis is the Horatian doctor; António Mora wrote philosophical essays.
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