![]() The poet was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. After his visit to the Americas, and New York City (1929 -1930), the latter recalled in the poems of Poeta en Nueva York ( Poet in New York, 1942) Lorca returned to Spain where he wrote his later plays, Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936). ![]() His work became widely known on the publication of Romancero gitano ( Gypsy Ballads, 1928), which incorporated themes and motifs from his native Andalusia, in a stylistically avant-garde manner. He was born in Fuente Vaqueros, near Granada, and educated in Granada and Madrid, where he befriended Dalí, Buñuel and Jiménez. The Beloved Sleeps on the Breast of the Poet (El amor duerme en el pecho de poeta)įederico García Lorca (1898-1936), poet, playwright, and theatre director was a member of the early twentieth century group of Spanish poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (including symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) to Spanish literature.Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint (Soneto de la dulce queja). ![]()
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