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.

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) was one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets. In this volume, Nicolás Fernández-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, Fernández-Medina shows Machado’s great debt to earlier writers and thinkers, such as Plato, Kant, Schlegel, and Unamuno.

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