Regarded by many as the finest poet of 20th-century Spain, Antonio Machado y Ruiz (1875-1939) is not well known outside the Spanish-speaking world. Some 250 poems in Spanish, drawn from Machado's entire oeuvre, are accompanied on facing pages by sensitive and beautifully fluent translations.
Antonio Machado is regarded in Spain as the greatest Spanish poet of the century. This volume can only serve to win readers for one of the greatest of Europe's poets.