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    Poet in New York (Penguin Modern Classics)

     
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    Poet in New York (Penguin Modern Classics)

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    Federico Garc"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 and during his long stay there he met all the principal writers, critics and scholars who visited the place, which was then a flourishing centre of cultural liberalism. In 1928 his Gipsy-Ballad Book (Romancero gitano) received much public acclaim. In 1929 he went to New York with Fernando de los R" and 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 now wrote fewer poems, but these include his masterpiece Lament for Ignacio S"hez Mej" (Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio S"hez Mej", 1935), a lament for a dead bullfighter. He wrote classical plays, pantomimic interludes, puppet plays, 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.

    Product details

    EAN/ISBN:
    9780141185828
    Edition:
    New Ed
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    304
    Publication date:
    2002-01-31
    Publisher:
    Penguin Classics
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780141185828
    Edition:
    New Ed
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    304
    Publication date:
    2002-01-31
    Publisher:
    Penguin Classics
    Languages:
    english

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