Lyric Poetry

The great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca was born on June 5, 1898. On August 19, 1936, he was executed by Spanish fascists. “... Federico García Lorca was like a generous, kind magician—he absorbed and gave people joy of the world; he was a planet of happiness, joy of life. Naive and artistic, equally at home in the cosmic and the provincial, extraordinarily musical, a magnificent mime—shy and superstitious, beaming and cheerful. It was as if he had gathered into himself all ages of Spain, the entire flowering of people’s talent, everything that the Arab-Andalusian culture gave him...” (Pablo Neruda).