“To write poems in order to justify an aesthetic theory, however good it may be, is completely absurd and monstrous.”
About Manuel Machado
29 August 1874–19 January 1947
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…