Romancero Gitano
Lorca, Federico Garcia / Ramsden, Herbert
Lorca is one of the outstanding poets of Spanish literature, and apart perhaps from his trilogy of stage tragedies, "Romancero gitano" is his most celebrated work: innovative, sophisticated, difficult and uniquely popular. Partly, no doubt, it is the appeal of his gypsies, childlike and magical, oppressed by the world around, partly too, the work's elemental concerns: machismo, honor, sex, betrayal, revenge, bloodshed, death, partly also, the ...