Lorca: An Appreciation of His Poetry

by Roy Campbell

Mr. Campbell quotes many of Lorca's poems, and his verse translations ? most of them published for the first time ? are an important contribution to contemporary English poetry. In translation as well as in critical exposition, the author's present study is informed with his intimate knowledge and devoted love of Lorca's country and language; and, in setting Lorca's particular genius against the attitudes and tendencies predominant in the rest of the world, this essay transcends once more the conventional limits of literary criticism, becoming a poet's declaration of his spiritual loyalties, rejections, and idiosyncrasies. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.

79 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Roy Campbell was an Anglo-African poet and satirist. He was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and Second World Wars.