Antonio Machado is, without a doubt, the father of modern Spanish lyric poetry: a bridge that stretches between B cquer, Rub n Dar o and the generation of Jim nez, Lorca, Alberti, Guill n and Aleixandre. An early visit to Paris and an engagement with Symbolism, and its Spanish equivalent, modernism, in the shape of Rub n Dar o, was to determine his course as a poet. Machado, however, unlike many of the French symbolists and perhaps because he was...
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