This poet’s experiments with opium during a passage through the Suez Canal inspired his gloomy poem “Opiário.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this literary alter ego with a fictional biography as a polemic Glasgow-educated sailor and devotee of Walt Whitman. Poems credited to this author include “Ode of Triumph” and “The Tobacco Shop.”
ANSWER: Álvaro de Campos [prompt on Fernando Pessoa]
[10e] Álvaro de Campos was one of the “heteronyms” used by Fernando Pessoa, a poet from this country. Pessoa’s heteronym Ricardo Reis was fictionalized in a novel by another author from this country, José Saramago.
ANSWER: Portugal [or Portuguese Republic; or República Portuguesa]
[10m] Pessoa published the Álvaro de Campos poem “Opiário” in a modernist journal named for this figure. Another poet wrote 55 poems dedicated to this figure during a “creative storm” at the Château de Muzot (“moo-ZO”).
ANSWER: Orpheus [accept Orpheu or Orfeu; accept Sonnets to Orpheus] (Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the Sonnets to Orpheus.)
<HG, European Literature>