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Federico Garcia Lorca: Gypsy Ballads

Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by Robert G. Havard~

Lorca's famous Gypsy Ballads were composed in the 1920s, when his poetic style was evolving from the traditional towards the surrealist. The combination of the ballad's perennial narrative format with startling and allusive imagery has intrigued readers ever since. Dr Havard argues that the fatalism and tribalism of the gypsy settings relate to Lorca's own subjective dilemma and sexual anxieties, and that they ultimately make a deeply personal statement. The translations are broadly into free verse which aims to preserve the directness and the rhythm of the Spanish original so that the force of the poems may be appreciated by English readers. 162p (Aris & Phillips 1990, reprinted with corrections 1995)

Table of contents

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Introduction: Andalusia and the gypsy
Sexuality and fate
The trational ballad and Lorca
Note on the translation
Gypsy Ballads
1. Ballad of the moon; 2. Preciosa and the wind; 3. Fight; 4. Somnambular ballad; 5. The gypsy nun; 6. The unfaithful wife; 7. Ballad of the black pain; 8. Saint Maichael, 9. Saint Raphael; 10. Saint Gabriel; 11. Arrest of Antonito Camborio on the road to Secille; 12. Death of Antonito Camborio; 13. Dead from love; 14. Ballad of the summoned man; 15. Ballad of the civil guard
THREE HISTORICAL BALLADS
16. The martyrdom of Saint Olalla; The comic tale of Don Pedro on horseback; 18. Tamar and Amnon
Commentary

Biographical note

Robert G. Havard is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, the author of three books, including the edition of Lorca's Mariana Pineda in this series, and of numerous articles on Spanish poetry. He is also a poet in his own right.

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