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Four
Major Plays
by Federico Garcia Lorca, John Edmunds (Translator),
Nicholas Round
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Federico García Lorca
(1898 - 1937)
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 Poet
in New York by
Federico García Lorca, Greg Simon, Steven F. White
(Translator), christo Maurer
Composed while the poet was a student at
Columbia University in 1929 and 1930, this book expressed the
young Lorca's amazed and indignant reaction to the vastness,
brutality and loneliness of the American megalopolis. Photographs.
"Federico García Lorca is among the most
celebrated Spanish poets of all time. The beauty of his writing
has given him a place in the gallery of the best Spanish writers.
This book he wrote when he was a student at Columbia University
relies on the influence he got from the surrealistic movements
that were running on Europe at the time. Thus, it gets far from
the poetic language used in his other books, most notably in
Romancero Gitano: verses leave the regularity of the romance to
explore new and rich arrangements; the metaphors grow more complex
and elaborate, making a delicious challenge to the reader; one can
read a poem time and again for days and will still be unsure of
its real meaning. Besides this some of the poems reach a new
height on Lorca's poetry. To anybody just seeking to discover
Lorca and his world, Romancero Gitano seems to be a best approach
in my opinion, but if you know it and like it, I can't help
recommending Poet in New York as a new horizon to discover. If
your approach to this book is open-minded, you won't be
disappointed." -- Anonymous Review
 Romancero
gitano by
Federico García Lorca
A collection of ballads represents the author's
best-known works and conveys the richness of his native Andalusia
and Spain's gypsy heartland, in a treasury that also celebrates
the human senses.
El miembro mas conocido de la generación del
27, Garía Lorca cometió la audacia de acercarse a la literatura
popular para incorporarla al proyecto del grupo de escritores
españoles que se habían dado a la tarea de fortalecer y hacer
más rica la poesía y el ensayo. Romancero gitano es una
particular visión de una épica y un sentimiento del pueblo más
libre, más romántico y más aventurero.
 Lorca
: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton
Federico García Lorca
(1898-1936) was not yet 40 when he was executed by Falangists
during the Spanish Civil War, yet he already towered over
literature in Spain. He was arguably his generation's greatest
poet and playwright. Although Lorca was best known in his lifetime
for works like Gypsy Ballads and Blood
Wedding, which expressed the soulful intensity of his
native Andalusia, this well-researched, probing biography reminds
readers that he was both cosmopolitan and unpredictable as an
artist and a man. Despite his privileged background, Lorca was
"a poet of the people who viewed poetry as something that
walks along the streets," someone who wrote as naturally as
he breathed and loved music and drawing nearly as much as poetry
and drama. Leslie Stainton, an American scholar who lived in Spain
for several years while researching this book, perceptively
analyzes Lorca's homosexuality, his left-wing political views, and
his artistic convictions, painting an intriguing picture of a man
whose strong feelings and beliefs were tempered by a dislike of
being pinned down. Though judiciously critical in evaluating
Lorca's work, the author conveys with force her appreciation of
his ability to forge new language for the exploration of age-old
themes: "the capriciousness of time, the impossibility of
love, the phantoms of identity, art, childhood, sex, and
death." --Wendy Smith
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Excerpt:
Federico García-Lorca was a creative child who
delighted in his childhood and recalled it with great affection.
He spent much of his youth in "el campo" running about
with the other boys and girls of the small town. Nature and its
mysteries held a constant fascination for Federico and he spent
hours contemplating its variety and wonder. He gave every object a
personality and would speak with it and listen to it as if it were
a living thing. As a man, Federico García-Lorca was known for his
wit and musical ability. He was good friends with the major poets
of his time and had a very close relationship with the surrealist
painter Salvador Dalí. As far as his homosexuality was concerned,
we do know that he suffered under the strictures of a conservative
Spanish society...
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From Cyberspain.com
Excerpt:
Lorca's poetry and plays combine elements of
Andalusion folklore with sophisticated and often surrealistic
poetic techniques, cut across all social and educational barriers.
Works include: Thus Five Years Pass, The Public, Dona
Rosita. He is toted to have succeeded in the creation of a
viable poetic idiom for the stage, superior to the works of his
contemporaries, Yeats, Eliot and Claudel.
August 9, 1936, Falangist soldiers dragged the
Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca into a field,
shot him and tossed his body into an unmarked grave... Franco's
government tried to obliterate Lorca's memory. His books were
prohibited, his name forbidden...
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From bobbin.com
Excerpt:
Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June
5,1898; died near Granada, August 19,1936, García Lorca is
Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poet and
dramatist. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the
Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied
by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to
question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation
has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less
obvious works). He must now be bracketed with MACHADO as one of
the two greatest poets Spain has produced this century, and he is
certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age...
This site hosts the following poems:
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Biography by Petri Liukkonen
Excerpt:
García Lorca's central themes in his works are
love, pride, passion and violent death, which also marked his own
life. The Spanish Civir was began in 1936 and García Lorca was
seen by the right-wing forces as an enemy. The author hid from the
soldiers but he was soon found and shot in Granada on August 19/20
of 1936 without trial by the Nationalist. The circumstances of his
death are still shrouded in mystery. He was buried in a grave that
he had been forced top dig for himself...
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From Moonstruck Drama
Excerpt:
Unfortunately, Lorca was to be an early casualty
of the Spanish Civil War. Intellectuals were considered dangerous
by Franco's Nationalists, and in the early morning of August 19,
1936, along with a schoolmaster and two bullfighters, Lorca was
dragged into a field at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
shot, and thrown into an unmarked grave. He had only finished the
first draft of The House of Bernard Alba two months earlier
and had recently told a Spanish journalist:
"I still consider myself a true novice,
and I'm still learning my profession ... One has to ascend one
step at a time ... [One shouldn't] demand of my nature, my
spiritual and intellectual development, something that no author
can give until much later ... My work has just begun."
Lorca's writings were outlawed and burned in
Granada's Plaza del Carmen. Even his name was forbidden. The young
poet quickly became a martyr, an international symbol of the
politically oppressed, but his plays were not revived until the
1940's, and certain bans on his work remained in place until as
late as 1971. Today, Lorca is considered the greatest Spanish poet
and dramatist of the 20th Century...
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