Abstract

In this study, Tempo e Poesia was the work of Eduardo Lourenço that we used the most for our considerations. Not only because it was in this work that his essayism gains greater expression, but, at the same time, because time-poetry is the binomial or the thematic pair, which both at an existential and ontological level, better clarifies our author's thinking.


Eduardo Lourenço's essays always or almost always have an existential and ontological rhythm, whether when he turns his gaze to the definition of culture, with its myths and adventures (no equivalent analysis in another Portuguese author of the 20th century), or when he analyzes the expression of thought of his first closest interlocutors such as Kierkegaard and Camus, or even when he critically reads the work of most 20th century poets in Portugal.