Poem of the Deep Song by Federico García Lorca

Roberts makes good use of a concept he calls the ‘psychogeographical’ as he ponders the young poet's keen interest in the environment of Andalucía and its Moorish past, and he provides useful insights about García Lorca’s debt to modernismo-especially the work of Rubén Darío and the poetry of the Siglo de Oro.

Of particular interest is the examination of the early work, seen by Roberts as testimony to a conflicted relationship with the narrow bourgeois perspective of García Lorca's natal city of Granada. Deftly assessing García Lorca's development as an artist, beginning with his earliest poetry as a teenager in Granada, Rogers examines the writer's artistic experimentation once he installed himself in Madrid and later as he traveled to New York, Cuba, and Buenos Aires. “Roberts makes a useful addition to the body of biographical treatments of the great Spanish poet and playwright. Read More about Deep Song Read Less about Deep Song

What emerges is a fascinating portrait of a complex and brilliant man as well as new insight into the works that helped to make his name. In this biography, Stephen Roberts seeks out the roots of the man and his work in the places in which Lorca lived and died: the Granadan countryside where he spent his childhood the Granada and Madrid of the 1910s, ’20s, and ’30s where he received his education and achieved success as a writer his influential visits to Catalonia, New York, Cuba, and Argentina and the mountains outside Granada where his body still lies in an undiscovered grave.

A vibrant and mercurial personality, by the time Lorca visited Argentina in late 1933, he had become the most celebrated writer and cultural figure in the Spanish-speaking world.īut Lorca’s fame could not survive politics: his identification with the splendor of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–36) was one of the reasons behind Lorca’s murder in August 1936 at the hands of right-wing insurgents at the start of the Spanish Civil War. He would go on to reinvent Spanish theater too, writing bold, experimental, and often shocking plays that dared openly to explore both female and homosexual desire. By the age of thirty, he had become the most successful member of a brilliant generation of poets, winning critical and popular acclaim by fusing traditional and avant-garde themes and techniques. Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) is perhaps Spain’s most famous writer and cultural icon.

Poem of the Deep Song by Federico García Lorca