biography
| name: |
Machado y Ruiz, Manuel
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pronunciation:
[machahdoh ee rooeeth]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1947)
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| biography:
| Poet and playwright, born in Sevilla, SW Spain. His father was the folklorist Antonio Machado y Alvarez, and Manuel collaborated on plays with his brother, also called Antonio. The family left for Madrid when Manuel was nine, where he was educated at the celebrated Institución Libre de Enseñanza. In 1899, along with Antonio, he worked for a short time with the publishing house of Garnier in Paris, and while there fell under the influence of Modernism. His best book, Alma (1900), was his first: here his existential pessimism did not overshadow his subjects, and in Felipe IV he found a happy subject for the evocation of painting in verse. Caprichos (1905) and El mal poema (1909) established his reputation. After his marriage to his cousin, Eulalia Cáceres, the quantity and quality of his work declined, and he produced little of note after Museo (1910), Apolo (1910), and Cante hondo (1912). The collections Sevilla y otros poemas (1921), Ars moriendi (1921), Phoenix (1935), and Horas de oro (1938) are slack in inspiration and control. His themes are Andalucia (whose songs captivated him), love, history, and art. |
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