A series of Fernando Pessoa's English poems, including some that long remained unpublished after the poet's death (there are two sets of nearly identical drafts): "Trumpets afar, very far in the night"; "Here in this wilderness" (listed by some editors as "Inversion"; "I have outwatched the lesser wain"; "As to a child, I talked my heart asleep" (a sonnet); "Spirit of Love and Excellence"; "Genius is the greatest curse"; "He wrote wonderful verse"; "D. T."; "The Mad Fiddler"; "Looking at the Tagus"; "Fever-Garden"; "A Sensationist Poem"; "Her fingers toyed absently with her rings"; "Second Sight"; "Desolation." The folder in which Jennings kept these papers at one point also contained the preface to A Selection of Poems (a planned book of Jennings's translations) and a translation of Pessoa/Campos's "Ode Triunfal", which are now located in the folder titled "Preface to a Selection of Poems."
The Hubert Jennings papers is an extensive collection of materials created or collected by Jennings in the course of his research on the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa focused particularly on the time Pessoa lived in Durban, South Africa. Jennings published …
