Federico García Lorca





Federico García Lorca

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born
June 05, 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain

died
August 19, 1936

gender
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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.


Average rating: 4.04 · 10,854 ratings · 437 reviews · 206 distinct works
La casa de Bernarda Alba
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 2,270 ratings — published 1936 — 58 editions
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The Selected Poems
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 1,814 ratings — published 1915 — 13 editions
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Bodas de sangre
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 1,661 ratings — published 1933 — 48 editions
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Poet in New York: A Bilingu...
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 821 ratings — published 1940 — 31 editions
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Collected Poems
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4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 1954 — 33 editions
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Romancero Gitano
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 1928 — 36 editions
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Yerma
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 683 ratings — published 1960 — 30 editions
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Three Tragedies: Blood Wedd...
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 614 ratings — published 1953 — 13 editions
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In Search of Duende
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4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
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Blood Wedding and Yerma
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions
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More books by Federico García Lorca…
“Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.

I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.

If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,

never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.”
Federico García Lorca

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
Federico García Lorca