The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's 'proverbios Y Cantares' - Fernandez-Medina, Nicolas

Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. In his book, 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.