Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, born Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida on February 17, 1836, in Seville, and dead in Madrid on December 22, 1870, became one of the most beloved and influential voices in Spanish poetry despite publishing no definitive collection of his poems during his lifetime. His reputation rests chiefly on the Rimas, brief lyric poems of extraordinary intimacy, and the Leyendas, prose tales in whic…
“When I feel, I do not write. I keep in my brain, as in a mysterious book, the impressions that have left their mark upon it.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Romantic Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Spirituality, Wonder
Manuel Machado was born on August 29, 1874, in the heart of Seville, Spain, at number 20 on San Pedro Mártir Street, into a household that pulsed with the rhythms of Andalusian folklore and intellectual curiosity. His arrival came at two-thirty in the morning, under the warm embrace of a city where orange blossoms scented the air and the distant echo of guitars hinted at the deep songs that would later infuse his poe…
“The senses and the heart, if they are not exercised, atrophy and languish.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Modernist Poets, Nature Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Sensuality, Longing
