Selected Poems
$27.20
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2002
Summary
Spain’s greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful Suites and stylized Gypsy Ballads, to his own dark vision of urban life, Poet in New York, and his elegaic meditation on death, Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; his range was remarkable. This bilingual edition provides versions by distinguished poets and translators, drawing on every book of poems published by Lorca and on his uncollected works.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014118583X |
| Author: | Federico García Lorca, Christopher Maurer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Federico García Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca was born into an educated family of small landowners in Fuente Vaqueros in 1898. A poet, dramatist, musician, and artist, he attended the university at Granada, where he acquired a fine knowledge of literature.
In 1919, he went to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. During his long stay there, he met all the principal writers, critics, and scholars who visited the place, which was then a flourishing center of cultural liberalism.
In 1928, his Gipsy-Ballad Book (Romancero gitano) received much public acclaim. In 1929, he went to New York. His volume of poems Poet in New York (Poeta en Nueva York) was published posthumously in 1940.
On his return to republican Spain, he devoted himself to the theatre, as co-director of La Barraca, a government-sponsored student theatrical company that toured the country. He wrote fewer poems during this period, but these include his masterpiece Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, 1935), a lament for a dead bullfighter.
He also wrote classical plays, pantomimic interludes, and puppet plays, including La zapatera prodigiosa (1930), and three tragedies: Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre, 1933), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba, 1936).
Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans in mysterious circumstances.
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