The Poetry of Machado (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Antonio Machado
- First Published: 1907
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Poetry or poets, War, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people
Critical Evaluation:
The spiritual crisis brought about in Spain by the loss of its last overseas possessions in Spanish America in 1898 found expression through the works of the Spanish writers of the Generation of ’98. Pessimism, analysis of the past, desire for change, and consciousness of history is reflected in productions of Spanish writers of that time.
Spain had actually been suffering a prolonged frustration in its national goals. Most of the Spanish-American colonies, discovered, explored, conquered, acculturated, and exploited by the mother country, had...
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