Antonio Machado y Ruíz

Antonio Machado y Ruíz (1875-1939), Spanish poet and member of the literary movement known as the Generation of 1898 (see Spanish Literature). He wrote austere and dramatic verse that reflects the landscape of Castile. Machado was forced to flee Spain during the civil war because of his Republican loyalties; he died in France after crossing the Pyrenees on foot. With his brother Manuel Machado y Ruíz, he wrote plays and made translations of the French playwright Edmond Rostand's L'aiglon and the French writer Victor Hugo's Hernani. Antonio Machado's Poesías completas appeared in 1917, but his reputation as a poet has been achieved, for the most part, posthumously.