Edwin Honig
3) Garcia Lorca
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Lorca was neither a "political" nor a "surrealist" poet -- in whatever sense these terms are used nowadays. He was, however, a popular poet in that special sense reserved to Spain: a poet whose work is loved and acclaimed by the illiterate and the sophisticated alike for those immediately discernible characteristics through which the Spanish people identify themselves. And he was a difficult poet, in the modern phrase, because he attempted to create...
8) La Dorotea
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A seventeenth century Spanish play dramatizes the relationships between Dorotea, a young lady, and Don Fernando, a poor poet thirty years her senior.