Hacia una interpretación última de la obra de Antonio Machado desde su afinidad electiva con el cante hondo

At this point, the influence that flamenco art and, therefore, Andalusian folklore had on the work of Antonio Machado is well known. The poet, who had known how to recognize the permanent universality of the human background of flamenco, formed a kind of neopopularism of his own motivated by aspiration of composing poetry related to a “deep palpitation of the spirit”. Without losing sight of all the previous bibliographical wealth, the following article will attempt to analyse the causes that motivated him to assimilate this influence and the forms it subsequently acquired. It proposes an interpretation of his poetic trajectory which, beyond being a final reading, argues that his distinguished existential depth was reinforced by his understanding of the Jondo art.