Word: romancero
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...Civil War and the nearly 40 years of dictatorship that followed, few events were cast in thicker shadows than the death of Lorca, known for such works as Romancero Gitano and Blood Wedding. He was arrested in Granada on Aug. 17, 1936, for "subversive" activities (in addition to being politically progressive, Lorca was gay). He was later taken from his cell and pushed into the back of a Civil Guard squad car. What happened after that remained a mystery until years later. In the 1950s and '60s, writers Gerald Brenan and Ian Gibson interviewed witnesses who said that Lorca...
...reacted to the city in such an elemental way that the poetry which resulted--discordant, night-marish, nearly surrealistic--was utterly unlike anything he had written before. In fact, Lorca's Poet in New York was so different from his early Canciones or the gypsy ballads in Romancero Gitano that many scholars try to consider it outside and unrelated to the course of the poet's stylistic "development...
What made Lorca change from his popular combinations of the old romantic meter (the lines and construction in his Romancero Gitano are very like EI Cid) with inflamed Gongorisms from the seventeenth century and scenes from contemporary Andalusian life was not the influence of Dali's artistic personality, nor the surrealist attempts of his not-so-friendly literary rival Rafael Alberti. We must recognize now with the settling effects of two decades since Lorca's death, that he took on this radically different form only as a means to express his similarly different subject matter. It should be apparent that...
...second of the four French readings from Victor Hugo, this evening at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11. Mr. Dupouey will read the following selections: Eile avait prisce pli, from "Les Contemplations;" A Villequier, from "Les Contemplations;" extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in "Les Miserables;" extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in "La Legende des Siecles;" la Vache, from "Les Voix Interieures." The reading will be open to the public...
...French Reading. Selections from the Works of Victor Hugo: Elle avait pris ce pli, from "les Contemplations;" A Villequier, from "les Contemplations"; extracts from la Bataille de Waterloo, in "les Miserables;" extracts from le Romancero du Cid, in "la Legende des siecles;" la Vache, from "les Voix interieures." Mr. Robert Dupouey. Sever...