Research Catalog

Title

Garcia Lorca / by Edwin Honig.

Author

Honig, Edwin

Publication

• Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions Books, 1944.
• ©1944

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• Vail-Ballou Press, printer.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

3 unpaged leaves, v-xi, 232 pages : frontispiece (portrait); 19 cm.

Summary

Lorca was neither a "political" nor a "surrealist" poet -- in whatever sense these terms are used nowadays. He was, however, a popular poet in that special sense reserved to Spain: a poet whose work is loved and acclaimed by the illiterate and the sophisticated alike for those immediately discernible characteristics through which the Spanish people identify themselves. And he was a difficult poet, in the modern phrase, because he attempted to create a personal idiom by relating his understanding of a folk world with the values of an industrial world. In this attempt, he adapted materials and techniques from sources as remote as the medieval Arabic poets and as recent as Breton and Dali. Yet to recognize his poetry alone is to omit his important dramatic work, for which poetry was, in one sense, a preparation. Poetic and dramatic both, his genius grew not out of advance-guard literary or political movements, but out of a richly functioning Spanish tradition barely surveyed by most present-day criticism. To approach him as an artist at all, one must realize the extent of his integration with that tradition, and understand the kind of sensibility able to thrive so well within it. Thus, in bringing Lorca's art to a focus, the following chapters will stress just such a double projection of traditional use and sensibility. - Preface.

Series Statement

The Makers of modern literature ; [4]

Subject

• García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936

Genre/Form

• Literary criticism.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Dust jackets – Connecticut (State) – Norfolk – 1044.

Note

• "New Directions books - Norfolk, Connecticut" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• "Selected bibliography": p. [219]-223.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig.

Contents

The juggler -- His heritage -- The embattled garden : early verse -- Triumph of sensual reality : mature verse -- Poet on the stage : dramatic experiments -- Woman on the stage : folk tragedies -- Image into action -- Signature -- Appendix.

Call Number

NPBC (Garcia Lorca) (Honig, E. Garcia Lorca)

LCCN

44003382

OCLC

1634553

Author

Honig, Edwin, author.

Title

Garcia Lorca / by Edwin Honig.

Publisher

Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions Books, 1944.

Copyright Date

©1944

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Makers of modern literature ; [4]

Bibliography

"Selected bibliography": p. [219]-223.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 11

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1053 bound in publishers' red cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1053 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Vail-Ballou Press, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other Form:

Online version: Honig, Edwin. García Lorca. Norfolk, Conn., New directions Books [1944] (OCoLC)988179651

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1053

NPBC (García Lorca) (Honig, E. García Lorca)