1. Antonio Cipriano Jose Maria y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, 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.
13 Facts About Antonio Machado
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Antonio Machado 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.
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Antonio Machado was born in Seville, Spain, one year after his brother Manuel.
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Antonio Machado was a grandson to the noted Spanish folklorist, Cipriana Alvarez Duran.
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Early in 1911, the couple went to live in Paris where Antonio Machado read more French literature and studied philosophy.
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Antonio Machado was devastated and left Soria, the city that had inspired the poetry of Campos, never to return.
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Antonio Machado went to live in Baeza, Andalusia, where he stayed until 1919.
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Between 1919 and 1931, Antonio Machado was Professor of French at the Instituto de Segovia, in Segovia.
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Antonio Machado moved there to be nearer to Madrid, where Manuel lived.
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Antonio Machado was evacuated with his elderly mother and uncle to Valencia, and then to Barcelona in 1938.
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Antonio Machado is buried in Collioure where he died; Leonor is buried in Soria.
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Antonio Machado turned away from the hermetic esthetic principles of post-symbolism and cultivated the dynamic openness of social realism.
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Antonio Machado creates this panorama through fundamental myths and recurring, timeless patterns of group behavior.