Romancero Gitano

by Federico García Lorca

Overview

Perhaps the most famous book of poetry written in Spanish in the 20th century, this volume masterfully conveys the richness of Lorca's native Andalusia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140255836
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Series:	Penguin Ediciones Series
Edition description:	Spanish-language Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.05(w) x 7.71(h) x 0.27(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Federico Garcia Lorca was born in 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, a few miles outside Granada in the province of Andalusia, southern Spain. From an early age he was fascinated by Spain's mixed heritage, adapting its ancient folk songs, ballads, lullabies, and flamenco music into poems and plays. By the age of thirty, he had published five books of poems, culminating in 1928 with Gypsy Ballads, which brought him far-reaching fame. In 1929-30 he studied in New York City, where he wrote the poems—among his most socially engaging and compelling—that were to be published posthumously (and famously) as Poet in New York. Upon returning to Spain he devoted much of his attention to theater, "the poetry which rises from the page . . . and becomes human." In 1936, at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, he was shot to death by anti-Republican rebels in Franco's army, and his books were banned and destroyed. 

Table of Contents

ÍNDICE

Prólogo i

1. Romance de la luna, luna 1

2. Preciosa y el aire 7

3. Reyerta 15

4. Romance sonámbulo 21

5. La monja gitana 31

6. La casada infiel 37

7. Romance de la pena negra 45

8. San Miguel 51

9. San Rafael 59

10. San Gabriel 65

11. Prendimiento de Antoñito el 73

Camborio en el camino de Sevilla

12. Muerte de Antoñito el Camborio 79

13. Muerto de amor 87

14. El emplazado 95

15. Romance de la Guardia Civil española 103

Tres romances históricos 117

16. Martirio de Santa Olalla 119

17. Burla de Don Pedro a caballo 129

18. Thamar y Amnón 139