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Regarded by many as the finest poet of twentieth-century Spain,
Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the
Spanish-speaking world. This volume will introduce him to
Anglo-American readers, enabling them to experience at first hand
the subtle nuances of his verse. Some two hundred fifty poems in
Spanish, drawn from Machado's entire oeuvre, are accompanied on
facing pages by sensitive and beautifully fluent translations which
render the originals accessible to the mind and the ear. Alan S.
Trueblood annotates the individual poems, placing them in context
and illuminating their allusions and undertones. In addition, he
provides a substantial biographical and critical Introduction. This
gives an overview of Machado's life, as a poet and teacher and
wide-ranging commentator on cultural, political, and social
affairs. (Forced into exile at the end of the Civil War, he crossed
the Pyrenees on foot and died a month later.) The Introduction also
discusses the qualities of Machado's predominantly quiet and
reflective verse, as well as the development of the thought of this
major poet.
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