| | 1 | Author: | Machado y Alvarez, Antonio, 1846-1893. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Spanish poems, ballads and proverbs
1846-1893 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1846-1893 | | | | Abstract: | Approximately 385 handwritten leaves of poems, ballads and proverbs from Spain, which were collected by Antonio Machado y Alvarez, in the late
nineteenth century. The largest grouping is Poesia popular, coplas, refranes; his titles on the other sections are Buenaven[turas?],
Miscelaneas, Oldivnan[za?], Supersticione[s], Coplas, Tradiciones, Romances popular[es], and Juegos infantiles. They may have been materials for
the 11-volume work he edited, Biblioteca de las Tradiciones Populares Españoles. Also included is a printed four-page leaflet
entitled, "Exposición," 1885, discussing the Professor Machado y Alvarez, his work, folklore societies in Spain, and the importance
of folklore in general. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Folklore -- Spain -- Sources. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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