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He was a Spanish poet and dramatist, that was illustrated in the modernism.
If you want to read some poems about him, go on and click on this link: https://www.zendalibros.com/5-poemas-manuel-machado/ -
Machado born one year after his brother. Machado was a writer of the 98th generation.
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In Madrid he lived in a lot of residences, he impart clases in different schools where he talk a lot about the culture of the XIX century.
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His dad, Demófilo, with 47 years old died, because of the tuberculosis illness.
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His grandfather, Antonio, that was a fighter of the Krausista doctrine, died two days before the 21’ birthday of Antonio Machado.
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In his first travel to Paris, from June of 1899 to October, he works as a translator in the Garnier editorial. He also went back to Paris two more times, one from February 1902 to August and the last one from January 1911 to September, more or less he had been in Paris 20 months in total. He always went by train and he usually looked through the windows and wrote some poems.
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Let’s read Machado first book, click on this link:
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He extended his first book, this one had a more intimist tone than the other one and he tried to capture the time fluency. Click on this link to read the book:
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Leonor was only 15 years old and Machado was 30 years old when they got married.
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If you wanted to read this book, click on this link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/campos-de-castilla-983795/html/53182a83-438f-4e63-8093-1a1e1ffb0861_2.html
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Machado translate to the national institute of the second teaching of Baeza, after the death of his wife.
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His wife die in Soria, the reason of her dead was the same as his dad, the tuberculosis illness. She was only 18. And they were only three years married.
When Leonor die, Machado sank to a very intense depression.
If you want to know more about Leonor; click here: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Izquierdo#Biograf%C3%ADa -
He move to Segovia as a French teacher and as a French literature teacher.
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He move to Segovia and started to teach French and French literature. In Segovia he with another two men founded the popular university of Segovia and they offered free courses.
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Go on and read this incredible book, click on this link: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/nuevas-canciones-986132/html/30272377-428c-4926-b563-5f553e7cdea1_2.html
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When he was in Soria, he met her and they get in love, but she was married with another men so their relation was imposible, and they accord to have a relation in secret.
To know more about this relation, click here: https://www.elmundo.es/loc/famosos/2019/04/27/5cc2fd6afdddff60588b4672.html -
It was a type of lyrical poetry, that talks about love and the sadness because of the death of his wife.
Let’s read it: http://iesjimenezlozano.centros.educa.jcyl.es/sitio/upload/machado-antonio-poesias-completas.pdf -
Machado died because of a pneumonia, in Colliure after a month of going away from Barcelona because he was forced to exile in Colliure because of the Spanish civil war.
His mother died 5 days after him, also in Colliure.
Both are in a Colliure niche bury and their grave are still there.
Their grave transform in a place where poets goes there and they gave them poems, letters... -
He is buried at the “La Almudena” cemetery
