García Lorca, Federico
García Lorca, Federico ( 1898 – 1936 ),Spanish poet and dramatist, born in Fuente Vaqueros, near Granada. He spent his first 11 years in the region. Such immersion in the language and ways of the Andalusian countryside profoundly influenced his sensibility. In Granada he began writing poetry, became an excellent pianist, and studied without much enthusiasm at the university. Lorca's early prose and poetry is pervaded with intense erotic anxiety and anticlerical anger, and shows that by 1918 he was aware of being homosexual. In 1921 he published a selection of verse, Libro de poemas, in Madrid, where for several years he lived sporadically at the famous, Europe-oriented students' residence, and became close friends with Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali (whom he celebrated in a distinguished ode). In 1927 he staged Mariana Pineda and published his second volume of poems, Canciones (Songs)....
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