| Antonio Machado (18751939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. In The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's",Proverbios y cantares,", 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. More specifically, Fernandez-Medina shows how the",Proverbios y cantares", reveal an important aspect of the poet's concept of Other. |
