Antonio Machado
Spanish poet whose Campos de Castilla is one of the great collections in the Spanish language, evoking the landscape of Castile with elegiac intensity. He died in exile during the Spanish Civil War.
Works
- SoledadesIntimate poems about solitude, love, and existential melancholy
- Campos de CastillaPoems capturing rural Castilian landscape and historical Spanish experience
- Nuevas CancionesLate-period poems featuring proverbial wisdom and philosophical reflection
- Juan de MairenaPhilosophical dialogue-poems presenting a fictional poet-teacher's aphorisms