Antonio Machado's revised and enlarged Soledades. Galerias. Otros Poemas of 1907, the first edition appeared in 1903 along with Juan Ramon Jimenenez's Arias tristes of the same year, marks the high point of the Spanish Symbolist experiment and a major contribution to the guerra literaria of the period. For all the hundreds of articles, conference papers and longer studies which offer a medley of opinion, often of superficial, doubtful or indifferent judgement, none has placed Machado in the context of his intellectual formation and his personal experiences. Thus, the Introduction considers...