Federico Garcia Lorca

Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Elegy mourning the death of a famous bullfighter with ceremonial intensity

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Federico Garcia Lorca

Spanish poet and playwright whose Gypsy Ballads and Poet in New York are landmarks of twentieth-century Spanish poetry. His murder by Nationalist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War made him a martyr of artistic freedom.

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