Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla visiting sorcerers

visiting sorcerers

observations of the people he meets and places he visits during a trip to Europe and the Holy Land in 1867

thunderstorms

how poison ivy used to treat rheumatism

Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla visiting sorcerersMaster poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth centurys greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary voices of the Generation of 1898 a brilliant group of writers dedicated to Spain's moral and cultural rebirth after the Spanish American War. Machado's lyrical Campos poems, tinged with nostalgic melancholy, are powerfully introspective and meditative,