Antonio machado biography wikipedia
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Stuart Wright Collection: Reginald Gibbons Papers
Manuscript Collection #Biographical/historical information
was born William Reginald Gibbons, in Houston, Texas, on 7 January His mother was of Polish ancestry; while his father was of Irish-Choctaw descent. Gibbons graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University () after studying Spanish and Portuguese. He also received the Morris Croll Prize in Poetry.
Gibbons then attended Stanford University where he obtained an M. A. in English and Creative Writing () and a Ph. D. in Comparative Literature. His dissertation was entitled Poetry from to Present in Romance Languages and English ().
Gibbons taught courses in Spanish and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Princeton University and Columbia University, He then moved to Northwestern University, where he served as editor of TriQuarterly, the international journal of new creative writing and essays, from Gibbons wrote reviews for the magazine, and compiled several speci
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Antonio Machado
Spanish poet (–)
For the metro station, see Antonio Machado (Madrid Metro). For the Portuguese politician, see António Ginestal Machado. For the Brazilian Olympic fencer, see Antônio Machado.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Machado and the second or maternal family name is Ruiz.
Antonio Machado | |
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| Born | Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz ()26 July Seville, Spain |
| Died | 22 February () (aged&#;63) Collioure, France |
| Occupation | Poet Professor of French |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Soledades, Campos de Castilla |
| Spouse | Leonor Izquierdo &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz (26 July &#; 22 February ), known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of ' His work, initially modern
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Machado, Antonio
Biography
Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '
Machado received a doctoral grad in literature in Madrid, attended the Sorbonne, and became a secondary school French teacher. He rejected the modernism of his contemporaries and adopted what he called “eternal poetry,” which was informed more by intuition than bygd intellect. Three stages can be distinguished in his artistic evolution. The first, typified bygd the poems in Soledades (; “Solitudes”) and Soledades, galerías, y otros poemas (; “Solitudes, Galleries, and Other Poems”), established his links with romanticism. These poems are concerned largely with evoking memories and dreams and with the subjective identification of the poet with natural phenomena, especially the sunset. In his second stage Machado turned away from pure introspection, and in Campos de Castilla (; “Plains of Castile”) he sought to capture the kraftfull landscape and spiri