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

by Betty Jean Craige

Book Overview

Written in 1929-1930, when Federico Garc?a 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,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081315183X
• ISBN13: 9780813151830
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher