The Poetics Of Otherness In Antonio Machado'S 'Proverbios Y Cantares'

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.