Lorca's Poet in New York: The Fall Into Consciousness - Paperback

by Betty Jean Craige (Author)

Written in 1929-1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,""a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe""-an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the technological world of New York. Ms. Craige here describes-through close analysis of the structure, style,

Author Biography

Betty Jean Craige is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Georgia.