Antonio Machado: Rebel poet against the inequities of the Spanish monarchy (+seeding)

Published at: 22/02/2025 08:34 AM

On February 22, 1939, Antonio Machado died, a Spanish poet who revived the power of poetry and prose with a great existentialist content and a man who dedicated a large part of his life to the fight for the end of the monarchy and the birth of the Spanish Republic.

“He spoke in verse and lived in poetry”, were the words that the poet Gerardo Diego also used to describe Machado, who collaborated in various literary magazines such as Helios, Black and White, Spanish Soul, Latin Renaissance and The Republic of Letters.

In October 1931, the Republic granted Machado a chair in French in Madrid, where from 1932 he was able to live again in the company of his family and later, through a Government Order signed on March 19, 1932, at the request of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees.

After the outbreak of the “Spanish Civil War”, he was ordered by his companions to leave Madrid as a measure to protect his life, which forced him to live in several cities, a journey that culminated in exile in the city of Colliure, France, where, faced with the deterioration of his health caused by the vicissitudes and his advanced age, he died at 64 years of age.

The remains of this Republican still lie in this French town, as it is considered a subversive in Spain dominated by the monarchy.

Mazo News Team