Poesias

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Losada. 1978. Fifteenth Edition (1978). First published in 1943. Paperback. Very Good in Wraps: a faint crease near the top corner of the front panel which imparts a ripple through the first 85 pages or so; very light wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; the pages show the expected light tanning, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy showing mild wear and minor flaws. An attractive reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.55 x 0.6 inches) . 271 pages. Index. Language: Spanish. Weight: 6 ounces. Front panel depicts sylized desert scene wity a bold sun and three large monolithic stones. Biblioteca clasica y contemporanea. Fifteenth Edition (1978) . First published in 1943. Mass Market Paperback. Antonio Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado (1875 –1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98. Machado's later poems are a virtual anthropology of Spain's common people, describing their collective psychology, social mores, and historical destiny. He achieves this panorama through basic myths and recurrent, eternal patterns of group behavior. He developed these archetypes in Campos de Castilla ("Castilian Fields") in such key poems as "La tierra de Alvargonzález", and "Por tierras de España", which are based on Biblical inheritance stories. His metaphors use geographical and topographical allusions that frame powerful judgments about socio-economic and moral conditions on the Peninsula. .