Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. In his book, Nicolas Fernandez-Medina shows how Machado's poetry and philosophy combine in the folkloric poetry of the Proverbios y cantares" to critique Spain's cultural milieu during the first decades of the twentieth century.
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) was one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets. In this volume, Nicolas Fernandez-Medina focuses on Machado's folkloric "Proverbios y cantares," a collection of short, proverbial poems that he wrote between 1909 and 1937. Through close examination of the poems, Fernandez-Medina shows Machado's great debt to earlier writers and thinkers, such as Plato, Kant, Schlegel, and Unamuno.
