CAMINANTE NO HAY CAMINO SERRAT ENGLISH SERIES

CAMINANTE NO HAY CAMINO SERRAT ENGLISH SERIES

Here, he wrote a series of poems dealing with the death of Leonor which were added to a new (and now definitive) edition of Campos de Castilla published in 1916 along with the first edition of Nuevas canciones.

He went to live in Baeza, Andalusia, where he stayed until 1919. Machado was devastated and left Soria, the city that had inspired the poetry of Campos, never to return. On 1 August 1912, Leonor died, just a few weeks after the publication of Campos de Castilla. In the summer however, Leonor was diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis and they returned to Spain. Early in 1911, the couple went to live in Paris where Machado read more French literature and studied philosophy. They were married in 1909, he was 34 and Leonor was 15. Here, he met Leonor Izquierdo, daughter of the owners of the boarding house Machado was staying in. In the same year, Machado was offered the job of Professor of French at the school in Soria. In 1907, the definitive collection was published with the title Soledades and Galerías. Over the next few years, he gradually amended the collection, removing some and adding many more.

His first book of poetry was published in 1903, titled Soledades. In 1901, he had his first poems published in the literary journal 'Electra'. Statue of Antonio Machado on Calle San Pablo in Baeza, Jaén Machado's grave at Collioure cemetery These encounters cemented Machado's decision to dedicate himself to poetry. During these months in Paris, he came into contact with the great French Symbolist poets Jean Moréas, Paul Fort and Paul Verlaine, and also with other contemporary literary figures, including Rubén Darío and Oscar Wilde. In 1899, he and his brother traveled to Paris to work as translators for a French publisher. While completing his Bachillerato in Madrid, economic difficulties forced him to take several jobs including working as an actor. During these years-with the encouragement of his teachers-Antonio discovered his passion for literature. The family moved to Madrid in 1883 and both brothers enrolled in the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. He was a grandson to the noted Spanish folklorist, Cipriana Álvarez Durán.

Machado was born in Seville, Spain, one year after his brother Manuel. In Gerardo Diego's words, Machado 'spoke in verse and lived in poetry.' Biography He gradually developed a style characterised by both an engagement with humanity on one side and an almost Taoist contemplation of existence on the other, a synthesis that according to Machado echoed the most ancient popular wisdom. His work, initially modernist, evolved towards an intimate form of symbolism with romantic traits. Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.

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