Cesário Verde, nor here, nor there

Abstract

The present essay deals with the relation of the poetry by Cesário Verde and some vectors of the traditions of the Portuguese poetry till the end of the nineteenth century. The intent is to show how much of his poetry invades such a tradition from a mobile of non pertaining to -his nor here, nor there- and of how he arms his poetry in such a space of the tradition, which is his exact without a place within the space as he proposes a modulation of the Babel myth of modern Lisbon.