On his way to Collioure in December 1938, he wrote "For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, all this will be clear: we lost the war. Machado is buried in Collioure where he died Leonor is buried in Soria. In his pocket was found his last poem, Estos días azules y este sol de infancia. It was here, on 22 February 1939, that Antonio Machado died, just three days before his mother. Finally, as Franco closed in on the last Republican strongholds, they were obliged to move across the French border to Collioure. Machado was evacuated with his elderly mother and uncle to Valencia, and then to Barcelona in 1938. The war was to separate him forever from his brother Manuel who was trapped in the Nationalist (Francoist) zone, and from Valderrama who was in Portugal. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936, Machado was in Madrid. He collaborated with Rafael Alberti and published articles in his magazine, Octubre, in 1933–1934. In 1932, he was given the post of professor at the " Instituto Calderón de la Barca" in Madrid. It was here also that Antonio had a secret affair with Pilar de Valderrama, a married woman with three children, to whom he would refer in his work by the name Guiomar. The brothers would meet at weekends to work together on a number of plays, the performances of which earned them great popularity. He moved there to be nearer to Madrid, where Manuel lived. While his earlier poems are in an ornate, Modernist style, with the publication of "Campos de Castilla" he showed an evolution toward greater simplicity, a characteristic that was to distinguish his poetry from then on.īetween 19, Machado was Professor of French at the Instituto de Segovia, in Segovia.
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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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