Federico García Lorca

INTRODUCTION
Federico García Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 5 Jun 1898 – 18 August 1936) he was a poet and dramatist well-know because he made a lot of good works. He was one of the called Generación del 27 (Generation of 27), and he is the most famous poet of the spanish literatura of the S.XX. He died executed because he was agreed with the Popular Front and cause of be homosexual.

Influences
His principals influences were Lope de Vega, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Antonio Machado, Manuel Machado, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Azorín and the Popular Folks Songs.


HIS LITERATURE
In 1928 he published him first book, “Impresiones y paisajes”. Later “El maleficio de la mariposa”, “Libro de poemas”, “La niña que riega la Albahaca” and “El príncipe preguntón”. At this works influenced Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, Gerardo Diego, Dámaso Alonso, Rafael Alberti, Buñuel and Dalí.

In 1929 he went to New York and at the same time two of his works were published in Spain, “Canciones” and “El Primer romancero gitano”. In New York he wrote “Poeta en Nueva York”, and later, in 1930, he went to La Habana, where he wrote “Así que pasen cinco años” and “El público”.
That same year he come back to Spain, and he noticed that his work “La zapatera prodigiosa” was been stageing.

After that, for the second republic he wrote “Bodas de sangre”, “Yerma and Doña Rosita la soltera”. And in 1934 he wrote, his most famous lament, called "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías", who died in a bullfight in the Manzanares square.
Here we can see a lament to Federico García Lorca, where we can noticed how much he was loved.