It remained his home in the Spanish capital for the next decade. In 1919 Lorca moved to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, a prestigious and socially progressive men’s residence hall. His first experiments in prose, poetry, and drama reveal an intense spiritual and sexual malaise along with an adolescent devotion to such authors as Shakespeare, Goethe, the Spanish poet Antonio Machado, and the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, father of Hispanic Modernismo, a late and decadent flowering of Romanticism. Despite plans to become a musician and composer, he turned to writing in his late teens. He took nine years to complete a bachelor’s degree. Lorca enrolled in the University of Granada but was a hapless student best known for his extraordinary talents as a pianist. At age 10 he moved with his family to Granada, where he attended a private, secular institute in addition to a Catholic public school. The eldest of four children born to a wealthy landowner and his schoolteacher wife, Lorca grew up in rural Andalusia, surrounded by images and social conditions that influenced his work lifelong. He was executed by a Nationalist firing squad in the first months of the Spanish Civil War. In the early 1930s Lorca helped inaugurate a second Golden Age of the Spanish theatre. Yerma), and La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936 The House of Bernarda Alba). Lament for a Bullfighter), and the tragedies Bodas de sangre (1933 Blood Wedding), Yerma (1934 Eng. He is known primarily for his Andalusian works, including the poetry collections Romancero gitano (1928 Gypsy Ballads) and Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (1935 “Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías,” Eng. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!įederico García Lorca, (born June 5, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada province, Spain-died August 18 or 19, 1936, between Víznar and Alfacar, Granada province), Spanish poet and playwright who, in a career that spanned just 19 years, resurrected and revitalized the most basic strains of Spanish poetry and theatre. Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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