«Only the poetic word liberates the world» (2016: III, 74), states Eduardo Lourenço in Time and Poetry, one of his most famous essays, dated 1959, among the many he wrote about poetry and Portuguese poets. Eduardo Lourenço’s examination both of Fernando Pessoa’s destabilising poetic thought – e.g. Pessoa Revisited (1973) – and lay existentialist authors – e.g. Situation of Existentialism (1954) Camus’s Tragic D...