"Páginas escogidas" de Antonio Machado de la Editorial Good Press. Good Press publica una gran variedad de títulos que abarca todos los géneros. Van desde los títulos clásicos famosos, novelas, textos documentales y crónicas de la vida real, hasta temas ignorados o por ser descubiertos de la literatura universal. Editorial Good Press divulga libros que son una lectura imprescindible. Cada publicación de Good Press ha sido corregida y formateada al detalle, para elevar en gran medida su...
• Machado’s popularity is likened to that of Rilke • utterly unique prose supporting the book—preface by John Dos Passos and reminiscence by Juan Ramón Jiménez • Barnstone is a foremost translator-poets bringing into English a dizzying range of work, from Mao to the New Testament • this book represents Barnstone’s first published translations, which appeared in 1959 in England and never distributed in US • Barnstone has...
Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 — a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish-American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic melancholy, are powerfully introspective and meditative, revealing an...
<P>Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: «Just as before, I'm interested/in water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest.» «Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to &#8216;go down to the hells' or stick to the ordinary,» Robert Bly writes in his...
