On Tempo e Poesia, Volume III of The Obras Completas de Eduardo Lourenço

Abstract

The essay resumes the work organized around the third volume that forms part of the collection of Eduardo Lourenço’s Complete Works. When this volume III came out, António Guerreiro wrote the following in the supplement Ípsilon, of the newspaper Público, on March 28, 2017: “Tempo e Poesia was already, in its first version, published in 1974, the Editora Letra1 - favor não distribuir / please do not distribute Proof 01 – 08/31/24 Sousa | Sobre Tempo e Poesia, volume III das Obras Completas de Eduardo Lourenço Revista Metamorfoses | v.20, n.2, e63995, 2023 2 most important work of criticism and essay literary work by Eduardo Lourenço. Now, enormously expanded with unpublished and dispersed material, to constitute a large volume of more than 700 pages, it is certainly not an exaggeration to say that the most important nucleus of all of Eduardo Lourenço’s essayism (and not just literary essayism) resides here”.