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As a member of the Generation of '27, Alberti won numerous prizes and awards and is considered one of the great literary figures of the Silver Age of Spanish Literature. In this program, Alberti recites his poem "Marinero en tierra" and reads a poem composed for the interview, "Concerning praise on my account." He also shows his many books that combine his art and poems. In this 1977 interview for Spanish television on the returnof exiled Spanish...

Over half a century has passed since famed poet-playwright Federico García Lorca was killed in Granada at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He lives on, however, in his immortal Canciones, Romancero Gitano, and La Casa de Bernarda Alba and other works that captured the soul of espana and the heart of the literary world. This documentary, produced by RTVE, traces his life from Fuentevagueros in Andalusia to his death at age 38 in 1936. Archival...