Publisher's Synopsis
Federico Garcia Lorca is one of the most admired and loved poets and dramatists of the century. Hi letters, with those of Keats and Hart Crane, are amongst the great documents that we have of the artistic and personal development of a major poet, and as the editor suggests, they provide 'a much more intimate portrait than any biographer achieves.' We get a vivid portrait of Lorca's relationships with his Spanish contemporaries as he was a member of one of the most brilliant groups of poets in Europe, the Generation of '27'. We have letters from Lorca to such fine poets as Jorge Guillen and Rafael Alberti, and are given windows into Lorca's prodigiously inventive mind. Above all, we can trace his emotional development through the cathartic New York period to the creative intensity of his final years.
