| Antonio Machado: Lands of Castile: Campos de Castilla and Other Poems Contributor(s): Ortiz-Carboneres, Salvador (Author), Burns, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0856687421 ISBN-13: 9780856687426 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: Antonio Machado was born in Seville in 1885 and died in southern France early in 1939, escaping from the Nationalist advance in the Spanish Civil War. He is increasingly recognized as one of the four greatest Spanish-language poets of the twentieth century, but lack of adequate translations has limited his appreciation in the English-speaking world. Here a native Spanish and a native English speaker set out to remedy this deficiency. The beauty of his landscape, fused with its sadness as his young wife's resting pace gave Machado his distinctive voice: intimate, elegiac, at once detached and involved, most characteristically expressed in Campos de Castilla (1917), from which many of the poems here selected are taken. The language of his poetry is spare, relying strongly on nouns and adjectives, asserting more than describing, equally anti-baroque and against the 'excesses of modern cosmetics' (Self Portrait). His father had been a collector of folklore, and Machado saw the romance (ballad) tradition as lying at the heart of the authentic Spanish poetic tradition. English cannot recreate the assonance on which he relied, but this translation captures the essential rhythm as well as the poignancy of the original. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 861.62 |
| Series: Hispanic Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.88" W x 8.25" (0.78 lbs) 121 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Antonio Machado was born in Seville in 1885 and died in southern France early in 1939, escaping from the Nationalist advance in the Spanish Civil War. |