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Federico García Lorca

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Federico García Lorca


Born
in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain
June 05, 1898

Died
August 19, 1936

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction

Influences
Rubén Darío, Mario Góngora, Walt Whitman, Comte de Lautréamont ...more


Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. 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 in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.
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Average rating: 3.97 · 155,729 ratings · 11,369 reviews · 1,450 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.87 avg rating — 45,246 ratings — published 1930 — 456 editions
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Bodas de sangre
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Romancero gitano
4.23 avg rating — 13,440 ratings — published 1928 — 179 editions
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Yerma
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3.93 avg rating — 12,715 ratings — published 1934 — 247 editions
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The Selected Poems
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4.32 avg rating — 9,086 ratings — published 1936 — 54 editions
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Poet in New York
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4.12 avg rating — 7,607 ratings — published 1940 — 245 editions
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Three Tragedies: Blood Wedd...
4.14 avg rating — 3,791 ratings — published 1936 — 73 editions
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Collected Poems
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4.45 avg rating — 3,436 ratings — published 1962 — 2 editions
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La zapatera prodigiosa
3.47 avg rating — 2,267 ratings — published 1926 — 116 editions
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Doña Rosita la soltera o el...
3.81 avg rating — 1,678 ratings — published 1935 — 64 editions
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Series by Federico García Lorca

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“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
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“To see you naked is to recall the Earth.”
― Federico García Lorca
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“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca
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