The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca - New Directions - 186 pages
The landmark poetry of Federico Garca̕ Lorca in a bilingual edition and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner W. S. Merwin.The Selected Poems of Federico Garca̕ Lorca has introduced generations of American readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences--Spanish folk traditions from his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Buųel--stream throughout Lorca's work. Poets represented here as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin.
9780811216227
57557440
2005002834
Poetry
PQ6613.A763
861.62
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca - New Directions - 186 pages
The landmark poetry of Federico Garca̕ Lorca in a bilingual edition and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner W. S. Merwin.The Selected Poems of Federico Garca̕ Lorca has introduced generations of American readers to mesmerizing poetry since 1955. Lorca (1898-1937) is admired all over the world for the lyricism, immediacy and clarity of his poetry, as well as for his ability to encompass techniques of the symbolist movement with deeper psychological shadings. But Lorca's poems are, most of all, admired for their beauty. Undercurrents of his major influences--Spanish folk traditions from his native Andalusia and Granada, gypsy ballads, and his friends the surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Buųel--stream throughout Lorca's work. Poets represented here as translators are as diverse as Stephen Spender, Langston Hughes, Ben Belitt, William Jay Smith, and W.S. Merwin.
9780811216227
57557440
2005002834
Poetry
PQ6613.A763
861.62