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| | Antonio Machado, Border of a Dream: Selected Poems Literary Review - Find Articles |
 | | Today, Antonio Machado is acknowledged as the greatest Spanish poet of the twentieth century, even by readers of English who, for a long time, would have awarded Garcia Lorca that laurel (the youthful "me," for example). |
 | | Machado is even, when he wants to be, funny: "Antonio Machado was a philosopher who spoofed, who was grave, who laughed at the failure of his speech, used words to prove that the events of the mind are always beyond the frailty. |
 | | His account of Machado's last days, managing (with his aged mother in tow) to stay one step ahead of Franco's nationalist army, is more thorough (and harrowing) than any I've read. |
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