Antonio Machado  (1875–1939) LINKS Poetic Obra of Antonio Machado http://translate.google.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.supercable.es/~jass17/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAntonio%2BMachado%2B%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff This comprehensive site devoted to Antonio Machado provides an extensive biography, which correlates periods in Machado’s life with his work. In addition, photographs and samples of Machado’s work adorn the site BIOGRAPHY Born in Palacio de las Duenas, near Seville, Spain, the young Machado moved with his family to Madrid, where his father had obtained a professorship. When his father’s sudden death in 1893 left the family without financial support, Machado and his brother turned to writing and acting to support themselves. In 1899, the brothers traveled to Paris, where they found work as translators. Around this time, Machado’s growing reputation as a poet led to teaching posts in various cities in Spain. He also went on to resume the education his father’s death had interrupted, obtaining a degree from the University of Madrid in 1918. During the last decade of his life, Machado once again became involved with the theater, collaborating with his brother on a number of successful plays. Among his volumes of poetry available in English translation are Times, Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (1983), The Castillian Camp (1982), and Roads Dreamed Clear Afternoons: An Anthology of the Poetry of Antonio Machado (1994). Machado remained in Madrid after the outbreak of civil war, committed to the Republican cause, but the violence finally forced him to flee. He died an exile in France.