Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca :: Spanish History Poets Poetry Dramatists Essays

Biography of Federico Garcia LorcaFederico Garca Lorca was born into an educated bourgeois family in Fuente Vaqueros, in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898. His drive was a teacher and his father a rich farm labourer. He read literature and music at Granada University and in 1919, at the season of 21, he published his low intelligence, Impresiones y Paisaijes, that was inspired by a trip around Spain that he took as part of his degree. That year, Lorca went to Madrid to await with his studies. He moved into the Residence of Scholars (residencia de estudiantes), a liberal institution that taught fit in to the social, political and religious philosophies of Krause. Their view of religion gave way to what is called pantheism, which is a purview Lorca embraced in his work. The importance of the residencia in shaping a generation of salvers and poets that became cognise as the propagation of 27 cannot be underestimated. All the latest innovations in the arts were discussed and debated wi thin the walls of this institution and its students included names as was a had a profound affect on Lorcas generation, where he would foregather and make good friends with the famous Spanish poets, Juan Ramn Jimnez (born in Huelva in 1881-1958), Emilio Prados (born in Mlaga in 1899-1962), Rafael Alberti (1902-present) and Jorge Guilln (1893-1984), as surface as the famous Surrealist artist, Salvador Dal (born in 1904 in Figueras), to whom he would write an ode in 1926, and Luis Buuel (born in 1900 in Teruel), among others. Through his friends at the Residencia he curtly got to know a number of other poets with whom he also overlap a bond in terms of friendship and ideological leanings and who engage since been given many names including that of La Generacin del 27 (The Generation of 27). This group, or generation includes his friends Prados, Alberti and Guilln, as well as Pedro Salinas, Gerardo Diego, Dmaso Alonso, Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Cernuda and Manuel Altolaguirre. Of t hese, Lorcas poetry has most often been compared with that of Rafael Alberti.Lorca was a prodigious artist, poet and playwright his first play, El Maleficio de la Mariposa (The Butterflys Evil Spell), premiered in 1920 and his first book of poems, Libro de Poemas (Book of Poems), was published the following year, although neither of these initially received the acclaim that his subsequent works would. In November 1921 he wrote Poema del Cante Jondo, which would not be published until a decade later, in 1931.